Tessa Keenan

Tessa Keenan (Te Ātiawa) is from Taranaki and is now based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She would like to thank her whānau, partner, friends and tūpuna for the constant inspiration and support during the writing of her chapbook. Her poems have appeared in Starling, a fine line, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook and Pūhia. romesh dissanayake is a writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work has appeared in The Spinoff, The Pantograph Punch, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong). His first novel, When I open the shop, was the winner of the 2022 Modern Letters Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from THWUP in 2024. Sadie Lawrence is a second-year university student of creative writing and media studies. Like Human Girls / all we have is noise was written from ages seventeen to nineteen. Her autism screening was inconclusive.