Bernadette Hall

Bernadette Hall is an award-winning writer of poetry and also of short fiction, an editor and a teacher. In 2011 she taught an MA class at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University, Wellington. Her ninth collection of poems, The Lustre Jug (Victoria University Press 2009), in which she explored her Irish heritage, was a finalist in the New Zealand Post Book Awards 2010. She edited the online anthology Best New Zealand Poems 2011. Poetry has taken her to the Iowa International Writers Program (1997), to Antarctica (2004) and to Ireland (2007). She performs her work regularly and gets much pleasure from collaborations with composers and with artists. She was an interview of Bernadette appears in Turbine and she appears on the New Zealand Book Council website.