Joanna Preston

Joanna Preston is a Tasmanaut poet, editor, publisher and creative writing tutor. Her first collection, The Summer King, (Otago University Press, 2009) won both the 2008 Kathleen Grattan Award and the 2010 Mary Gilmore Award. Her second collection, tumble (Otago University Press, 2021) won the Mary and Peter Biggs Prize for Best Poetry Collection at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Joanna is also ringmistress of The Poetry Class, an editor at Sudden Valley Press, and a tutor at Hagley Writers’ Institute.