Bee Trudgeon (she/her) has written for Rip It Up, The Spinoff, NZ Poetry Box, NZ Poetry Shelf, and The Sapling. Her poetry has been published in Kiss Me Hardy 2, NZ Poetry Box, NZ Poetry Shelf, Tarot Poetry Journal, a fine line, and the New Zealand Poetry Society Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa 2024 and 2025 anthologies paint me and There Are Rabbits Here. She is a contributing writer to Audioculture Iwi Waiata. She won the Story Inc. Poetry Prize in 2024, for her IIML CREW 253 Poetry He Rotarota portfolio Chaos Springs. She returned to the IIML to undertake the Iowa CREW 259 in the summer of 2026. She moonlights in service of the Patreon page of her alter ego, Grace Beaster.

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