About the Author

Jill Chan writes poems and fiction. Her work has been published in various New Zealand literary magazines (and anthologies) both in print and online; in websites in the US, UK, Italy, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia; and in the New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. She is the author of seven collections: Phone Call and Other Prose Writings (2017); The Art of It: Three Novellas (2011); On Love: a poem sequence (2011); Early Work: Poems 2000-2007 (2011); These Hands Are Not Ours (ESAW,2009), winner of the Earl of Seacliff Poetry Prize; Becoming Someone Who Isn't (ESAW, 2007); and The Smell of Oranges (ESAW, 2003).