Emma Hislop (Kāi Tahu, she/her/ia) is a writer living and working in Taranaki. Her debut short story collection, titled Ruin, was published in March 2023, with Te Herenga Waka University Press and won the Hubert Church Best First Book of Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, 2024. Her work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas, including Action Spectacle, The Listener, Metro, Newsroom, Sport, Huia, and Takahē. She has a Masters of Creative Writing from the IIML and in 2021 received the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary.

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