Alison Glenny was born in Christchurch, and currently lives in Paekākāriki. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington, a postgraduate certificate in Antarctic Studies from the University of Canterbury, and has taught creative writing at Whitireia New Zealand. Her work has appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, and online.

Winner of the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award 2017

"There is an elegance and poise and care in the language of these poems, an unobtrusive mastery and ease in their cadences and rhythms. Here is writing so close to the sound of how our speech usually arranges itself, and yet set with a hard delicacy that makes it quite something else – memorable, direct, focused to the movement of how the poems present both thought and feeling." - Bill Manhire, judge of the 2018 Kathleen Grattan Award, has written