AUP New Poets 9

About Arielle Walkerharold couttsSarah Lawrence

Sarah Lawrence (she/her) is a Pneke-based poet performer musician and pizza waitress. She recently dropped out of law school to study acting at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. Her parents are thrilled. She won the Story Inc Prize for Poetry in 2021 and you can find her writing in Starling Landfall A Fine Line and The Spinoff. harold coutts is a poet and writer based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. They have a hoard of unread books and love to play Dungeons & Dragons. Their work can be found across various New Zealand literary journals such as bad apple Starling rongohau | Best New Zealand Poems Poetry New Zealand Yearbook and in Out Here: An Anthology of Takatpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa edited by Chris Tse and Emma Barnes (Auckland University Press 2021). Arielle Walker (Taranaki Ngruahine Ngpuhi Pkeh) is a Tmaki Makaurau-based artist writer and maker. Her practice seeks pathways towards reciprocal belonging through tactile storytelling and ancestral narratives weaving in the spaces between. Her work can be found in Stasis Journal Turbine | Kapohau Tupuranga Journal Oscen: Myths and No Other Place to Stand: An Anthology of Climate Change Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press 2022).