AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Software engineer and writer Rose Lu has a master’s in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington. Her work has been published in Sport, Pantograph Punch, Turbine Kapohau, and Mimicry. Rose’s debut essay collection, All Who Live on Islands, was awarded the Modern Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize. She was the 2022 New Zealand writer-in-residence at Randell Cottage, and is currently working on her first novel.

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