Lynn Davidson

After living in Edinburgh for the past four years, Lynn Davidson has returned home to Wellington. Her latest poetry collection Islander is published by Shearsman Books in the UK and Victoria University Press in New Zealand. She was Visiting Artist at Massey University in 2011. She had a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013 and a Bothy Project Residency at Inshriach Bothy in the Cairngorms in 2016. She won the Poetry New Zealand Poetry Award, 2020 and is the 2021 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence. Lynn has a doctorate in creative writing, teaches creative writing, and is a member of 12, an Edinburgh-based feminist poetry collective.

Website: lynn-davidson.com