Saskia Leek

Saskia Leek was born in Christchurch. She has an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. She was nominated for the Walters Prize in 2010 for the exhibition Yellow is the Putty of the World and has been the subject of the touring survey show Desk Collection, spanning twenty years of work. Lynley Edmeades was born in Putaruru and is the author of two collections of poetry, As the Verb Tenses (2016) and Listening In (2019). She has an MA in Creative Writing from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast, and a PhD in English from the University of Otago. She is the current editor of Landfall.