Gail Ingram

Gail Ingram writes from the Port Hills of Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, and is author of three collections of poetry. Her latest, anthology (n.) a collection of flowers (Pūkeko Publications 2024), is a weaving of poetry and local botanical and mountain art. Her second and third collections Some Bird (2023) and Contents Under Pressure (2019) were published by Sudden Valley Press and Pūkeko Publications respectively. Her work has been widely published in local and international journals and anthologies, such as Poetry New Zealand, Landfall, The Spinoff, Atlanta Review, Cordite Poetry Review and Barren Magazine. Awards include winning the Caselberg (2019) and New Zealand Poetry Society (2016) international poetry prizes. She is managing editor of NZ Poetry Society’s flagship magazine a fine line and has edited for Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction and takahē magazine. She teaches at Write On School for Young Writers and holds a Master of Creative Writing (Distinction).

Credit: Mick Ingram