Paula Harris lives in Palmerston North, where she writes and sleeps in a lot, because that's what depression makes you do. She won the 2018 Janet B. McCabe Poetry Prize and the 2017 Lilian Ida Smith Award. Her writing has been published in various journals, including The Sun, Passages North, Queen Mob's Teahouse, The Rialto, Barren, Diode, Aotearotica, The Spinoff and Landfall.

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