Therese Lloyd
Therese Lloyd currently lives in Paekākāriki on the Kapiti Coast. Her first collection of poems, Other Animals, was published in 2013 by Victoria University Press. The poems in this collection span a period of roughly seven years, including many poems written during her year as Schaeffer Fellow at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop in 2007–08. She is currently working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington.
Lloyd comments: ‘The poem “The Nail” was inspired by a trip to Te Rau Aroha Marae in Bluff. Waiting outside the marae as manuhiri before being officially welcomed on, I experienced a complex array of emotions as though in limbo. The poem is an attempt to capture that sense of otherness.’
