Louise Wallace

Louise Wallace‘s latest work is Ash, her first novel, published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2024. She is the author of four previous collections of poems, and is the founder and editor of Starling, an online journal publishing the work of young writers from Aotearoa. She is a recipient of the Biggs Prize for Poetry and a Robert Burns fellow, and the editor of Ōrongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022.

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