Alison Glenny is a queer Pākehā writer living in Kāpiti. Her Antarctic-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. Her latest book is Bird Collector, published by Compound Press. She is also a contributor to Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ writers from Aotearoa (Auckland University Press, 2021) and the Aotearoa Climate Change Poetry Anthology.

Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2021 Appearance:
Bird Collector: Alison Glenny with Pip Adam, 6 Oct, 6pm