Tusiata Avia is a poet who does her thing on paper as well as on the stage. She is currently doing the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria, and has published a few bits and pieces including a couple of children's picture books in Pacific languages. Hinemoana Baker is a singer and writer living on the Kapiti Coast. She has had two bi-lingual stage-plays (one a science fiction play in Te Reo Maori) produced by Taki Rua. She has also published short stories, poems and children's fiction. She performs her music regularly in Wellington and even tours occasionally. Anton Blank (Ngäti Porou, Ngäti Kahungunu) is a public relations consultant working in Wellington. He is previously published in Growing Up Mäori and Huia Short Stories 3. His work has also been accepted for publication in Coastal Voices, a collection of Wellington writing due out later this year. Jane Blaikie lives in Paekakariki where she works as a contract writer and editor. Jenny Bornholdt has written six books of poetry, most recently These Days (VUP, 2000). She has also edited two anthologies of New Zealand poems and has a good idea for another one. Nola Borrell attended Victoria University of Wellington’s 1998 Poetry Workshop and was secretary for the New Zealand Poetry Society (NZPS) from 1999 - 2001. Her poems have been published in the Listener, Takahe, Frogpond, Spin, Hobo, Valley Micropress and NZPS anthologies. She lives in the western hills of the Hutt Valley. Iain Britton is Director of Maori Studies at King’s School in Auckland. His work has been published in most NZ literary magazines in the last two years, the latest in SPIN 42. His work has also appeared in UK magazines such as Orbis. His online publications are with Southern Ocean Review, Auckland Poetry and Trout. Catherine Chidgey completed the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria in 1997. She is the author of two prize-winning novels, In a fishbone church and Golden Deeds, and has just returned from Menton, France, where she held the 2001 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. She currently lives in Christchurch. Stephanie de Montalk's first collection of poetry, Animals Indoors, won the Jessie Mackay Award for the best first book of poetry at the 2001 Montana Book Awards. Her memoir/biography, Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk, has just been published by Victoria University Press. Jane Hurley is a one-time journalist and scriptwriter, currently doing the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria. She divides her time between Wellington and the Wairarapa. Tim Jones' short fiction and poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies in New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Australia, and Canada. His first collection of fiction, Extreme Weather Events, was published in May 2001 by HeadworX Publishers. Jennifer Levasseur and Kevin Rabalais's work has appeared in several North American journals, including The Kenyon Review, The Missouri Review and Tin House. They are both post-graduate students at Victoria University. Anna Livesey is a student at Victoria University. Mary Macpherson is a Wellington poet and photographer. She completed Greg O'Brien's Poetry Workshop at Victoria University in 1999. Photographs from her '17 Days of Shopping' installation were published in Sport 25. Kirsten McDougall is an English Literature student at Victoria University. She is currently attending Greg O'Brien's Poetry Workshop. Samara McDowell has been working in film and television for a number of years, but more recently has been concentrating on fiction. Her play "Blood Sisters" was recently staged during the New Zealand International Festival of the Arts, while her story "Holloway Road" appeared in Mutes & Earthquakes. The title of her piece, “Music, Violets and the Letter ‘S’” is taken from a chapter heading in A Room with a View, by E M Forster. Robert McGonigal is a Wellington student and writer, who completed the poetry workshop earlier in the year at Victoria University. Deborah McLennan is a fourth year student at the College of Design, Fine Arts and Music at Massey University. Paula Morris was born in Auckland in 1965. Her stories have been published in JAAM, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Huia Short Stories 4. She is currently a student on Victoria’s MA programme in Creative Writing, for which she is writing a novel called Queen of Beauty. Gregory O'Brien writes poems and essays mostly. A collection of the latter is forthcoming from VUP in March 2002. He is curator of John Drawbridge; Wide Open Interior, an exhibition opening at the City Gallery Wellington in December 2001. Stephen Oliver is a trans-Tasman poet based in Sydney. His recently published book is titled, Night of Warehouses: New and Selected Poems 1978 - 2000, HeadworX, 2001. This selection covers five volumes of poetry and spans two decades. Susan Pearce lives and writes in Wellington. She is currently completing a collection of short stories for the MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University. Not all of her stories are weird dialogues. Harry Ricketts is a Wellington poet, critic, biographer and editor. His most recent book is Plunge (Pemmican Press, 2001). John Sinclair was born in the UK and grew up in Mosgiel, just south of Dunedin. He enjoyed an idyllic, pre-student loan education at Otago University, emerging with a PhD in English Literature and a determination to avoid university teaching as a career. He has delivered books to Harvard Law School teachers, written speeches for a Prime Minister, researched social security in China, and set up a consulting firm. He is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria. Marty Smith teaches creative writing. Her official course description which she is obliged to present according to the NCEA guidelines, reads like a prison sentence. ‘Directions’ is a poem she wrote as an alternative course description. Nicholas St John was born in 1975 and lives under an assumed name. He has been published in Sport, Landfall, The Picnic Virgin, and an Australian collection of short comics, where his work has since been mistaken for pornography. He really isn't that bitter or twisted anymore. Barbara Strang was born in Invercargill, the eldest child of ten. She has lived in Sumner, by the sea, for a long time, with 'three children, two pear trees, and a pile of rotting timbers'. She completed an MA in Creative Writing in 1998, specialising in poetry. Louise Wrightson is a writer and bookseller living in Wellington. Her company, New Zealand Books Abroad, promotes and sells New Zealand publications overseas.

 

 

 

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Turbine is an on-line literary publication created for Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters (Wellington, New Zealand). Turbine publishes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and visual works produced by students and graduates of the IIML, as well as writers and artists in the Wellington region. Hopefully Turbine will serve as an ongoing archive of emerging New Zealand literature. Turbine is co-edited by students of the Creative Writing in the Marketplace Course, co-ordinated by former Landfall editor, Chris Price. The first issue of Turbine was launched on October 25, 2001.

 

 

 

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