Lynley Edmeades a poet, essayist and academic. She is the author of three books: As the Verb Tenses (OUP 2016), Listening In (OUP 2019), and Bordering on Miraculous (Massey UP 2022), a collaboration with artist Saskia Leek. She has a Master's in Creative Writing from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University, Belfast, and a PhD in avant-garde poetics from Otago, where she teaches English and creative writing. She has held several writing residencies and her creative and academic work has been published and anthologised widely and her poetry has been translated into several languages. Her forthcoming book, Hiding Places, is a hybrid auto-social biography that examines the experience of contemporary motherhood in Aotearoa, and will be published in 2025. She is the current editor of Landfall.