Alison Glenny is a queer Pākehā writer living in Kāpiti. HerAntarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments, The Farewell Tourist, won the Kathleen Grattan poetry award in 2017 and was published by Otago University Press in 2018. In the second half of 2019 she held an Ursula Bethell writer’s residency at the University of Canterbury. Her project, which drew on ecopoetics and queer history, was inspired by pioneering mountaineer and feminist Freda du Faur. Alison has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Antarctic Studies from the University of Canterbury.

Verb Festival 2020 Appearances
6pm, Nov 7: Lauris Edmond Poetry Party