Carrie Rudzinski is an American-New Zealand poet who has performed her work over the past 20 years in seven countries and been featured in Bustle, HuffPost, Tedx, and Teen Vogue. She is the co-editor of Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2023) and the co-creator of Hysterical which won Best New Aotearoa Play at the Wellington Theatre Awards. Her work has been published in Landfall, The Spinoff, Stasis Journal, Sweet Mammalian, Catalyst, and Muzzle. She recently completed her Masters of Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington.

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