Louise Wallace
Founder and Editor

Louise Wallace holds an MA in Creative Writing from Te Herenga Waka | Victoria University of Wellington. She is the author the novel Ash, and four previous collections of poetry. Her work has also featured in anthologies, including Prose Poetry: An Introduction (Princeton University Press, 2020) and Wild Honey: Reading New Zealand Women’s Poetry (Massey University Press, 2019). She was the 2015 Robert Burns Fellow at the University of Otago and the editor of Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022.

Francis Cooke
Co-editor

Francis Cooke is a Wellington-based writer.  He completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University in 2008 and his short fiction has been published in Landfall, Hue & Cry, JAAM and takahē.

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ISSN: 2463-6312