Nathan Joe is a Chinese-Kiwi playwright and performance poet. He was the 2020 National Poetry Slam Champion and the 2021 Bruce Mason Playwriting Award winner. He was the 2019 NZ Young Writers Festival writer-in-residence, a 2020 Ursula Bethell writer-in-residence, a 2021 Art Centre resident, and is currently a 2022 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow. This year, he released poetry short film Homecoming Poems and his play Scenes from a Yellow Peril premiered at the ASB Waterfront Theatre in June to critical acclaim. 

Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022 appearances:
The Radical Possibility of Craft, Thurs 3 Nov, 7pm.
Show Ponies, Fri 4 Nov, 7:30pm & 9pm.