Anne Marie Basquin is a writer, photographer, and artist based in Leigh near Te Hāwere-a-Maki in Aotearoa, New Zealand. She grew up in the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the US and Whakatorea near Otepoti in the South Island. She moved to the Hauraki Gulf in 2021.

She has a BFA in Printmaking from the Dunedin School of Fine Arts and a Master of Creative Writing from Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. Her paintings and photographs are included in private collections around the world. Her poems, non-fiction and photographs have been published in print and online.

Anne Marie dreams, swims and makes things. She documents, archives, and keeps a detailed record. She composes true and fictional stories with a strong ecological thread. The hours she spends underwater inform the colour selection and gestural strokes prominent in her painting work. Her work — in any medium — documents the process of change over time, both in the ecological systems she immerses herself in and within the confines of her own body.

She is currently at work on a novel about humpback whales and our changing oceans, as well as a series of essays on girlhood, migration, miscarriage, and healing trauma with saltwater.

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