Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

About Nina Mingya Powles

Nina Mingya Powles is a poet and zinemaker of mixed Malaysian-Chinese heritage born in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of poetry collections field notes on a downpour (If a Leaf Falls 2018) and Luminescent (Seraph Press 2017). She was co-winner of the 2018 Women Poets Prize and in 2019 won the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize for Nature Writing. She is poetry co-editor of The Shanghai Literary Review and the founding editor of Bitter Melon . Her next poetry collection Magnolia will be published by Nine Arches Press in 2020. She is currently working on a book of lyric essays. She lives in London.