Hana Pera Aoake
(Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Hinerangi, Tainui/Waikato) an artist, writer, curator and sweaty milf from Aotearoa. Hana’s first book, A bath full of kawakawa and hot water, was published with Compound Press in 2020. Their second book, Blame it on the rain was published in 2025 with no more poetry (Australia). They are also publishing a book of essays with Discipline (Australia) in late 2025. Hana is currently slogging through hell and doing a PhD at Auckland University of Technology. Hana lives in the shadow of Pūtauaki maunga and likes dirt and worms, long walks on the beach, Pilates, orange wine and sparkling water.
A bathful of kawakawa and hot water (2020)
Some helpful models of grief (2025)
Murray Edmond
Known variously for his work as a poet, playwright and fiction writer, and as an editor, critic and dramaturge. His poetry collections Letters And Paragraphs, Fool Moon, and Shaggy Magpie Songs were finalists in the New Zealand book awards for poetry. Many of his poems have featured in journals and in anthologies. He has worked extensively in theatre as a writer, actor, director and dramaturge, notably for 20 years with Indian Ink’s Jacob Rajan and Justin Lewis on the creation of all that company’s scripts.
Back Before You Know (2019)
FARCE (2022)
Craig Foltz
A writer and visual artist whose work has appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and galleries. He has previously released two books on Ugly Duckling Presse. He currently lives and works in New Plymouth, pinched between the wild and remote west coast and Mt Taranaki. More info at craigfoltz.com
LOCALS ONLY: An Outsider’s Insider Perspective on Aotearoa (2020)
Petroglyphs (2024)
Jasmine Gallagher
A poet, essayist, art critic and doctoral candidate at the University of Otago, where she is researching landscape mythology in contemporary New Zealand art and poetry.
Dirge Bucolic (2022)
Alison Glenny
Alison Glenny’s Antarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments, The Farewell Tourist, won the Kathleen Gratton award for poetry and was published by Otago University Press in 2018. In 2019 she was an Ursula Bethell writer in residence at the University of Canterbury, working on a project about Edwardian female mountaineers. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast.
Bird Collector (2021)
Slanted (2024)
Schaeffer Lemalu
Schaeffer Lemalu (1983-2021) was a poet and artist from Auckland. He published two chapbooks, Sleeptalker (2018) and Sleeptalker 2 (2020), and exhibited paintings at Robert Heald Gallery.
David Merritt
David has a broad, strong back, well suited for organic gardening, driving old Landrovers, and reinventing the economics of poetry. He makes publications of poems from recycled Readers Digest Condensed book covers and banana box cardboards, often in public places, on a footpath bench seat or from the bonnet of his car. Using stamp pad alphabet sets, a stapler, glue sticks, a photocopier and a copy left intellectual property model, Landroverfarm Press has now published over 100 distinct titles from unique single page A3 publications to collections, boxsets, #poetryracks, a #poetrybrick and anthologies.
Crisis & Duplication (2017, 2018)
You Sleep Uphill (2022)
Always Becominging
A human being, duh. They are a genderqueer writer, editor, librarian, and woo-girl, born and based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. They co-founded the reading/zine series Food Court. This isn’t even their final form.
I am a human being (2020)