Claudia Jardine (she/her) was born in Te-Tihi-o-Maru in 1995 and lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch. In 2020 she published her first chapbook, The Temple of Your Girl, with Auckland University Press in AUP New Poets 7 alongside Rhys Feeney and Ria Masae. In the same year, she received the Alex Scobie Research Prize for her Masters level thesis in Classics. For the winter of 2021 Jardine was awarded an Arts Four Creative Residency in The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, where worked on her first collection of poems. She has had poems published in youth journals, not-youth journals, magazines, zines and websites, and her debut folk pop EP North is available online.

Verb Festival 2021 Appearances:
Cheese Rolls for Southern Souls, Sat 6 Nov, 8:30pm (LitCrawl).

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