Courtney Sina Meredith

Courtney Sina Meredith is a writer and a performer based in Auckland. She describes her work as an 'ongoing discussion of contemporary urban life with an underlying Pacific politique.' She launched her first book of poetry, Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick (Beatnik), at the 2012 Frankfurt Book Fair, and has since published a short story collection, Tail of the Taniwha (2016) to critical acclaim. Her play Rushing Dolls (2010) won a number of awards and was published by Playmarket in 2012. She has been selected for a number of international writers' residencies including the prestigious Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, the Island Institute Residency in Sitka, Alaska, and the Bleibtreu Berlin Writers' Residency in Charlottenburg, Berlin. Her poetry and prose have been translated into Italian, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia.  

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