Aimee-Jane Anderson-O’Connor is a writer and dabbler, who recently finished her PhD: Poetic Lives: Verse Biography in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a keen zinester and collage maker, and believes in the power of community and collaboration. She was the featured poet in Poetry New Zealand 2021, and was awarded the 2018 Charles Brasch Young Writers’ Essay Competition, and the 2017 Monash Prize for Emerging Writers. Her words have appeared in Starling, Mayhem, Brief, Poetry New Zealand, Landfall, Turbine, Mimicry, Min-a-rets, Sweet Mammalian, Sport and Verge, as well as The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. Most recently, her work was included in No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is currently fascinated by embodiment, history and reclamation.