Joan Fleming

Joan Fleming is a poet and scholar who teaches Creative Writing at Massey University. She is the author of three poetry books, most recently Song of Less (Cordite, 2022). She holds a Masters in Creative Writing from Victoria University's IIML, a Masters in English from Otago University, and a PhD in ethnopoetics from Monash University. In 2021 her manuscript Dirt was shortlisted for the Helen Anne Bell poetry bequest. Her honours include the Biggs Poetry Prize, a Creative New Zealand writing fellowship, the Verge Prize for Poetry, and the Harri Jones Memorial Prize from the Hunter Writers' Centre.