Rhian Gallagher’s first poetry collection Salt Water Creek (Enitharmon Press UK 2003) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. Rhian lived in London for eighteen years, returning to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2005. She received a Canterbury Community Historian Award in 2007- Feeling for Daylight: the Photographs of Jack Adamson was published by the South Canterbury Museum in 2010. In 2008 she received the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. Her second poetry collection Shift, (Auckland University Press 2011, Enitharmon Press, 2012) won the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry. A collaborative work, Freda: Freda Du Faur, Southern Alps, 1909-1913, was produced with printer Sarah M. Smith and printmaker Lynn Taylor in 2016 (Otakou Press). Rhian was the Robert Burns Fellow in 2018. Her most recent poetry collection Far-Flung was published by Auckland University Press in 2020 and longlisted for Ockham Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry 2021. Her work has appeared in a number of anthologies, most recently Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa edited by Chris Tse and Emma Barnes (Auckland University Press 2021).

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