Collection: Nikki-Lee Birdsey

Author photo: Ebony Lamb

Nikki-Lee Birdsey was born in Piha. She has a PhD from the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BA from New York University. Her poetry and prose has been published in various journals in Aotearoa and abroad, including most recently in Poetry New Zealand, The Iowa Review, Fence and Sport. Her first book, Night as Day, was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2019. She sometimes teaches poetry at the IIML and is an editor of the poetry journal Sweet Mammalian.