ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jenny Bornholdt was the Writer in Residence at Victoria University during 2010. During her time there she wrote a book of poems entitled The Hill of Wool, which will be published in 2011 by Victoria University Press. Jenny has written nine books of poetry, including a selected poems: Miss New Zealand. Her last book, The Rocky Shore, was a collection of six long(ish) poems, described as ‘…as much autobiographical essay as long poems’. This book won the Montana Book Award for Poetry in 2009. With her husband, poet and artist Gregory O’Brien, Jenny has co-edited My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems (Godwit/Random House, 1996) and The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France/ French Writers in New Zealand (Victoria University Press 2005). With Mark Williams, Bornholdt and O’Brien edited An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (Oxford University Press, 1997), which won the 1997 Montana Book Award for Poetry. Jenny has been an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, and was the Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate 2005-7.