Bee Trudgeon
Bee Trudgeon is a writer, rocker, mama, storyteller, children's librarian, perpetual student, and frequent Crip the Lit collaborator. Her journalism has been published in Capital Times, RipItUp, The Sapling, NZ Poetry Shelf, The Spinoff, Muzic.NZ, and AudioCulture Iwi Waiata; her poetry in NZ Poetry Box, NZ Poetry Shelf, a fine line, Tarot, and the NZ Poetry Society 2024 and 2025 anthologies. She was awarded the 2024 Story Inc. Poetry Prize. She has been posting a poem a week on the Patreon page of her alter ego – Grace Beaster – for over a decade.
Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2026 events Bee Trudgeon features in:
The Politics of Disabled Joy