Janis Freegard

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Janis Freegard lives in Wellington with a historian and a cat and works in the public service. Her first full-length poetry collection, Kingdom Animalia: The Escapades of Linnaeus, was published by Auckland University Press in 2011. She is also the author of a chapbook, The Continuing Adventures of Alice Spider (Anomalous Press, 2013) and co-author of AUP New Poets 3 (Auckland University Press, 2008). Her poetry has appeared in a wide range of journals and anthologies in New Zealand and overseas, including Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page (Random House, 2014), Best NZ Poems 2012 and Landfall. In 2014, she held the inaugural Ema Saiko Poetry Fellowship at New Pacific Studio in the Wairarapa. She also writes fiction, is a past winner of the BNZ Katherine Mansfield Award and published her first novel with Makaro Press in May 2015. She blogs at http://janisfreegard.com.

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Janis Freegard

Janis Freegard

The Glass Rooster

AUP New Poets 3

Kingdom Animalia: The Escapades of Linnaeus