Author photo: Ebony Lamb
Ash Davida Jane is the author of How to Live with Mammals (2021), which won second place in the prestigious Laurel Prize, an annual nature and ecopoetry prize run by the UK Poetry School. Ash's poetry has appeared in Mimicry, Sweet Mammalian, Starling, The Spinoff and elsewhere. Their first book, Every Dark Waning, was published in 2016 by UK indie publisher Platypus Press. Ash lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, where they are a publisher and editor at the independent publisher Tender Press.