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Sport 39: 2011
Contributors
Contributors
Pip Adam’s first book of short stories, Everything We Hoped For, was published by Victoria University Press in 2010.
Sarah Jane Barnett is a writer and reviewer who lives in Wellington. Her work has appeared in a range of literary journals including Landfall, Best New Zealand poems, Hue & Cry, Cordite, and Turbine. Sarah is currently completing a creative writing PhD in the field of ecopoetics.
Peter Bland first emigrated to New Zealand in 1954, and after several decades of dividing his time between New Zealand and England he now lives in Auckland. His most recent book is Loss (Steele Roberts, 2010).
William Brandt has worked as a film and television actor, script writer, script reader, and producer. His fiction has been published in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States, and has been translated into Italian and French. The Times Literary Supplement described him as Carver-esque, and his novel The Book of the Film of the Story of My LIfe was named by the New Zealand Herald as one of the ten best New Zealand books of the decade. He is married, has three children but no dog.
James Brown is a poet and retired Sport editor. He met Allen Curnow once, in a signing line.
Medb Charleton is originally from Ireland. She studied Sociology at Trinity College Dublin and has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University, Wellington. She is preoccupied by identity and the influence of environment and these are explored in her poems through travel between Ireland and New Zealand.
Geoff Cochrane’s latest book of poems is The Worm in the Tequila (VUP, 2010).
Rose Collins completed a Masters at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2010. Work from her MA short story collection has also been published in Turbine 10. She lives on Banks Peninsula.
Lynn Davidson is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently How to live by the sea (Victoria University Press, 2009), and a novel, Ghost Net (Otago University Press, 2003)
Lynley Edmeades is from Putaruru, and is currently studying creative writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University Belfast, in Northern Ireland. She has recently published in Poetry Review Ireland and JAAM.
Johanna Emeney was born in Takapuna, Auckland, and attended Kristin School for the entirety of her school education. She now teaches English there. She did her BA, PGCE and MA at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and subsequently taught for ten years in Norfolk, England. She married David, a Mathematics teacher, in 1999, and they moved back to New Zealand in 2006. Jo has had poems published in New Zealand and English magazines and periodicals and currently is one of the three finalists in the Open section of the Hippocrates Prize. Her first collection, Apple & Tree, will be published by Cape Catley in July. She has just started her Phd in medical poetry.
Joan Fleming’s work has appeared in Landfall, the Listener, and Best New Zealand Poems. She is based in Golden Bay. ‘Wake’ was written in response to the Christchurch earthquake of 22 February.
Bernadette Hall’s ninth collection of poems, The Lustre Jug (VUP), was a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Awards. The Judas Tree, her edition of the selected poems of the late Lorna Staveley Anker, is due out from Canterbury University Press later this year. She is currently a Teaching Fellow at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.
Amy Head has worked as an editor in the UK and NZ and in 2010 she completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University. She lives in Wellington.
Helen Heath writes poetry and essays; her work has appeared in various journals in NZ, Australia and the US. Her next collection will focus on the intersect between people andpage 324 technology. You can read more at helenheath.com.
Anna Jackson’s fifth collection of poems, Thicket, comes out from Auckland University Press in July. Her story ‘When We Were Bread’ appears in The Long and the Short of It competition book.
Lynn Jenner’s first poetry book, Dear Sweet Harry, was published by Auckland University Press in 2010.
Andrew Johnston lives in Paris. Sol was published in 2007 by VUP (NZ) and Arc (UK).
Brent Kininmont has lived in Tokyo for the past decade.
Aleksandra Lane completed her MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2010, and was awarded the Biggs Poetry Prize for her portfolio. Her poems have been published in Turbine, Swamp, Snorkel, Side Stream, as well as two poetry collections in Serbia. Right now she is abandoning her day job in IT to do a PhD in English at Massey University. She is also in the process of growing thicker skin just so she can live in Wellington. Literally.
Chloe Lane lives in Wellington, where she writes, and publishes Hue & Cry.
Helen Lehndorf is a writer and writing teacher whose work has appeared in the journals Landfall, Takahe, JAAM, Hue & Cry, in anthologies and on Radio New Zealand National.
Li Bai (701–762) is a Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty period. Baziju is a pen name of Canadian poets Roo Borson and Kim Maltman, who visited New Zealand in March 2011 for the opening of the Confucius Institute at Victoria University. With Andy Patton, they form the collective Pain Not Bread, author of Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei (Brick, 2000).
Bill Manhire’s collaboration with the jazz composer Norman Meehan has resulted in the CD Buddhist Rain (Rattle 2010), and the DVD Making Baby Float, to be released later in 2011.
Emma Martin has an MA (Distinction) in Creative Writing from the Victoria University of Wellington, and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Manchester. Her fiction has been published in Sport, Hue and Cry, Turbine and New Short Stories 5. She lives in Wellington with her partner and two children.
Sarah McCallum is currently completing a series of lyric essays exploring the taxonomy of bears. She lives in Nelson.
Kirsten McDougall has had fiction and poetry published in Sport, Turbine and Big Weather: Poems of Wellington (2nd edition).
Kate McKinstry is a Wellington-based poet. She likes to look out windows and has her own small view of the harbour.
Frankie McMillan is a short story writer and poet. Her poetry collection Dressing for the Cannibals was launched in 2009 as part of the Christchurch Central Libraries’ 150th anniversary. Recent poetry has been published by Turbine, Cincinnati Review and the International Quarterly. In 2009 she was the winner of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition.
Hannah Newport-Watson lives in Wellington. She was first published last year in Landfall and is working on becoming an editor.
John Newton’s second book of poems, Lives of the Poets, came out in 2010, 25 years after his first, Tales of the Angler’s Eldorado.
Bob Orr’s collections include Valparaiso (AUP, 2002) and Calypso (AUP, 2008).
Vincent O’Sullivan’s new book of poems, The Movie May Be Slightly Different, is published by VUP in May 2011.
Cate Palmer completed an MA in Creative Writing at the IIML in 2010. ‘In Search of X’, one of her portfolio stories, won her the Macmillan Brown Prize for the second time.
Lawrence Patchett lives in Wellington. His work has appeared in Sport, Booknotes and Lumière Reader. He is literary coeditor of Hue and Cry, and currently working towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Victoria University.
Susannah Poole lives in Wellington in a house with an amazing view and no sun in winter. She has a MA in Creative Writing from the IML and is currently working on a few short stories.
page 325Jenny Powell is a Dunedin poet. She has written four individual collections of poetry and has worked with other poets to produce two collaborative collections. Her work can be found in a variety of national and international publications. Her latest collection, Viet Nam: A Poem Journey, was published through HeadworX in 2010.
Chris Price’s most recent book is The Blind Singer (AUP, 2009). She is the 2011 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize winner in Menton, France.
Melissa Day Reid was born in the USA but has lived in New Zealand since she was 24. She has an MA from the IIML and was the 2009 recipient of the Jean Squire project scholarship. She lives in Kaikoura where she is busy raising her first child, gestating her second, and writing her first novel for the third time. A chapter of that novel, ‘The Life and Deaths of Adeline Snow’, was in Sport 38.
Helen Rickerby lives in a cliff-top tower in Wellington. Her latest book is Heading North, a poetry sequence published last year in a hand-bound edition by Kilmog Press. She’s a co-managing editor of JAAM literary magazine, and runs Seraph Press, a boutique poetry publisher. She enjoys her day job as a web editor, but wishes for more hours in every day.
Marty Smith grew up when smoking was communal and companionable. The people she loved floated through a blue haze like mirages. Her poems have been widely published, including in Best New Zealand Poems 2009, and The Best of Best New Zealand Poems (VUP 2011). She teaches at Taradale High School under her married name of Marty Schofield.
Elizabeth Smither’s most recent book, The Commonplace Book: A Writer’s Journey Through Quotations, was published by Auckland University Press in April 2011.
Terry Sturm was Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland and had been working since 2003 on a literary biography of Allen Curnow until his premature death in 2009. He was the editor of The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English (1991 and 1998) and wrote widely on New Zealand and Australian poetry, fiction and drama. He received the CBE for services to literature in 1990 and in 2007 was appointed an Inaugural Fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities, Te Matanga o Te Whainga Aronui.
Rhydian W. Thomas was born in Wales and now lives in Wellington. He recently completed the IIML’s MA course, and his poems have appeared in Hue & Cry, Turbine, and plenty of zines. He’s also a musician (recording as The Body Lyre) and a fight journalist at NZFighters.com.
Sylvie Thomson lives in Nelson and writes coming-of-age stories about thoughtful young men. Her story ‘Anchorage’ appears in The Long and the Short of It competition book.
Tim Upperton’s poems and fiction are published or forthcoming in Agni (US), The Best of Best NZ Poems, Bravado, Dreamcatcher (UK), Landfall, NZ Books, NZ Listener, North and South, Reconfigurations (US), Sport, Takahe and Turbine. His first book of poems, A House on Fire (Steele Roberts), was published in 2009.
Catherine Vidler’s first full-length collection of poems, Furious Triangle, is forthcoming this year from Puncher and Wattmann. She is the editor of online trans-Tasman literary magazine Snorkel.
Louise Wallace’s first collection of poetry, Since June, was released in December 2009 by Victoria University Press. She has work forthcoming in the journals Hue & Cry and Starch. Louise, her partner and their cat recently left South Karori (and its cycle tracks) and have moved to Nelson in search of more stories.
Ian Wedde’s latest book of poems is Good Business (AUP, 2009). He has an essay in Peter Black’s forthcoming photobook, I loved you the moment I saw you (VUP, 2011).
Tom Weston’s last collection was published in 2008. Another is being assembled.
Ashleigh Young’s poems and essays have appeared in Booknotes, Turbine, Sport, Landfall, and the School Journal. Ashleigh was the winner of the 2009 Landfall Essay Competition and the recipient of the 2009 Adam Foundation Award in Creative Writing. She has worked as an editor at Learning Media and is currently an editor at the Aga Khan University in London.