Caroline Masters is a writer, editor, and teacher living in the Waitākere Ranges, Tāmaki Makaurau.

Her work has been recognised in national and international poetry competitions and has been widely published in journals and anthologies. Some of these include Flash Frontier, takahē, Contemporary Haibun Online, Light Journal, and the NZPS International Poetry Competition anthologies.

In 2023, Caroline received the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a sequence of poems about the Tarawera eruption of 1886. She is now developing this into a book-length collection of poetry and creative non-fiction. Like much of her published writing, the collection reflects on local history, landscape, and the connections between people and place. Multiple voices come together to reveal the layering of human and geological history.

Caroline supports young writers through mentoring, workshops, and publishing. She is the founder and editor of Poetry Fridays, an online journal celebrating children’s poetry.  Caroline has collected, edited, and produced two anthologies of poetry by young writers.

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