Nicola Easthope

Nicola Easthope lives with her partner and young daughter on the Kāpiti Coast of the North Island. Her first collection of poetry, leaving my arms free to fly around you, was published in 2011 by Steele Roberts. In 2005, she won second prize in the Bravado International Poetry Competition, and was a finalist in the 2011 World Wide Fund for Nature "Ocean:Views" competition. Recently, one of her poems was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize. Nicola performs her work in the Wellington region and was a guest poet at the Queensland Poetry Festival in 2012. She is involved in the Kapiti Coast-based group Creative Coast.