Emma Neale is the author of six novels and six collections of poetry. Her novel Fosterling (Vintage, Random House (NZ), 2011) was short-listed for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy 2011. Her novel Billy Bird (Vintage, Penguin Random (NZ), 2016 was short-listed for the Acorn Prize, Ockham NZ Book Awards 2017 and long-listed in the International Dublin Literary Award 2018. Her poetry collection The Truth Garden (Otago University Press, 2012) was awarded the Kathleen Grattan Award for an unpublished manuscript 2011, and Tender Machines (Otago University Press, 2015) was long-listed in the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Among other awards, she has received the Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers for a portfolio of poems, Timekeeper, Canterbury University (NZ), 1991; an English Speaking Union Cultural Scholarship, ESU Cultural Seminar, Cambridge University (UK), 1999; the Todd/Creative New Zealand New Writer’s Bursary, 2000; the inaugural Janet Frame/NZSA Memorial Prize for Literature (2008) and the Robert Burns Writer’s Fellowship (2012). Her poetry was short-listed for the inaugural Sarah Broom Poetry Award (2014). She has also held the Philip and Diane Beatson Writer’s Award (2015); the University of Auckland Michael King Writer’s Fellowship (2019); and in 2020 she received the Lauris Edmond Memorial Award for a Distinguished Contribution to Poetry. Having until recently edited Landfall, Emma now works as a freelance editor, and co-supervises two creative/critical PhD candidates at the University of Otago.