ASHLEIGH YOUNG

 

Can You Tolerate This?

 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ashleigh Young is a writer and editor living in Wellington. Her work has appeared in BooknotesTurbineSport, Landfall, and Best New Zealand Poems. Her essay collection Can You Tolerate This? won the 2009 Adam Foundation Prize, which is awarded annually to an outstanding  student of the Creative Writing MA programme at Victoria University; and an essay from the collection won the 2009 Landfall Essay Competition.  She is currently completing a miscellany of essays and a small, reluctant herd of poems.