Wellington-based Janis Freegard is the author of several poetry collections, most recently Reading the Signs (The Cuba Press). Her novel, The Year of Falling, was published by Mākaro Press. She was the inaugural Ema Saikō Poetry Fellow at New Zealand Pacific Studio and has previously won the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Prize and the Geometry/Open Book Poetry Prize. Born in South Shields, she grew up in the UK, South Africa and Australia before her family settled in Aotearoa when she was twelve.

Verb Festival 2021 Appearances
What We Talk About When We Think About the Future, Sat 6 Nov, 8:30pm (LitCrawl).

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