Writer and teacher Annabel Wilson lives in Ōhinehou Lyttelton. Her poetry has been widely published and her plays have been performed at UNESCO Cities of Literature Short Play Festival, Festival of Colour, BATS theatre, Te Pou and recorded for RNZ. Annabel’s first book, Aspiring Daybook, won the NZ Mountain Book and Film Festival Best Fiction award (2018) and was long-listed for the Ockham Book Awards (2019). Annabel is also a recipient of the R.A.K Mason Fellowship at NZ Pacific Studio, the AAWP Emerging Writers’ Prize and a residency at Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage. She has recently completed her PhD in Creative Writing through Massey University.