Anne Kennedy
Anne Kennedy is a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. The Darling North won the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Award for poetry. The novel The Last Days of the National Costume appeared in the same year. Kennedy teaches fiction and screenwriting at Manukau Institute of Technology and is the 2014 University of Auckland Resident at the Michael King Writers’ Centre.
Kennedy comments: ‘One day in Honolulu I read in the paper that West Nile Virus will inevitably arrive in the Hawaiian islands because it is already established on the West Coast of the US. West Nile would join a long list of invasions that have changed the way people live in Hawai‘i. For years we lived near a beautiful stream in Honolulu that looked clear but, like all the waterways on Oahu, is polluted with Leptospirosis so a child couldn’t even paddle in it. All I could do with the news of yet another assault on the eco-system was to write a little narrative.’
