Kerry Hines is a poet, writer and researcher. She has a PhD in Creative Writing (Victoria University, 2012) and extensive experience in writing and editing.

Young Country, her collection of poems responding to and presented with photographs by William Williams, was published by Auckland University Press in 2014. An associated exhibition toured nine public galleries around New Zealand between 2014 and 2017.

Kerry’s poems have also appeared in a number of journals (including Sleet, PN Review, The Red Wheelbarrow and Landfall) and in Millionaire’s Shortbread, poems by Mary-Jane Duffy, Mary Cresswell, Mary Macpherson and Kerry Hines, with illustrations by Brendan O’Brien (Otago University Press, 2003).

Her published essays include ‘William Williams and “The Old Shebang”’, in Early New Zealand Photography: Images and Essays (ed. Angela Wanhalla and Erika Wolf, Otago University Press, 2011), and ‘On Holiday at Home: Christchurch’s Seaside Tent “Camps”, c.1892-c.1910’, in The Lives of Colonial Objects (ed. Annabel Cooper, Lachy Paterson and Angela Wanhalla, Otago University Press, 2015).

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