Dominic Hoey is a poet, author and playwright from Tāmaki Makaurau

Dominic’s debut novel, Iceland was a New Zealand bestseller, and long-listed for the 2018 Ockham Book Award.

His autobiographical one person show, Your Heart Looks Like a Vagina, a dark comedy about living with autoimmune disease, had three sell out runs in New Zealand and was performed at the Brisbane Poetry Festival in 2017. Dominic was nominated for best new playwright at the 2018 Wellington Theatre Awards.

His latest poetry collection, I Thought We’d Be Famous was released in October 2019. 

In a former life, Dominic was an MC battle and slam-poetry champion. He’s performed his poetry in Australia, Europe, England, Japan, and America.

See Dead Bird Books for Dominic’s poetry collection.

Verb Festival 2020 appearances:
8.30pm, 7 Nov: Songwriters (LitCrawl)
9.30pm, 7 Nov: LitCrawl After Party
1pm, 8 Nov: Bad Advice for Good People (Newtown Sunday Stroll)