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Lynn Davidson

Lynn Davidson

Poet, essayist, and fiction writer Lynn Davidson grew up in Pukerua Bay, Wellington. Her memoir Do You Still Have Time for Chaos was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press. She is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Islander (THWUP and Shearsman), a novel, essays and short stories. Lynn had a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013 and a Bothy Project Residency in the Cairngorms in 2016. She won the Poetry New Zealand Poetry Award, 2020, and was 2021 Creative New Zealand Randell Cottage Writer in Residence. In 2023 she was Mike Riddell Writer in Residence in Ōtūrēhua, Central Otago. Lynn calls Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland home.

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