Helen Rickerby
Helen Rickerby lives in a cliff-top tower in Aro Valley, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. She has published five and a half collections of poetry, most recently My Bourgeois Apocalypse (Auckland University Press, 2026), and How to Live (2019), which won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2020 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. She’s co-organised poetry conferences and literary events, and single-handedly ran Seraph Press – a boutique but significant publisher of New Zealand poetry. She earns a crust as an editor and technical writer.
Photo credit Kathleen Winter
Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2026 events Helen Rickerby features in:
Fever! A Poetry Gala