About the Author

Chris Price's first solo poetry collection, Husk, was a top 10 bestseller and won the Jessie Mackay award for best first book of poetry at the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She was, for many years, the co-ordinator of a major international literary event, the Writers and Readers Week, for the New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington. Chris Price now convenes the undergraduate poetry workshop and manages the on-line journal, Turbine at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington. Chris Price has an MA in English and German from the University of Auckland, and an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. She has worked as an in-house editor in trade publishing for Reed Publishing, and also edited New Zealand's longest-running literary magazine, Landfall, from 1993 to 2000. Chris lives in Wellington, and occasionally plays percussion in an improvisational acoustic music line-up called ""Waiting for Donald"". She has been widely published in literary journals.