Welcome Hera Bird

Booksellers NZ this week welcomed Hera Bird to our small team - she's our new administrator.

Hera even arrived with her own home-baked welcome cake (delicious); a sure sign of good times ahead.

When she's not helping Booksellers NZ members she's an award-winning poet. Most recently her collection of prose poetry exploring love, science and the imagination won the prestigious Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for 2011.

Bernadette Hall, co-convenor of the 2011 MA Programme, was struck by the energy and originality of the work: ‘Hera’s poetry is as refreshing as spearmint tooth paste. It’s vigorous, sparky and assured. It’s contemporary culture hooked into real depth of thinking. It’s also hugely funny.’

Hera has also won the Maurice Gee prize in Children’s Writing and the Story! Inc poetry prize.

IMAGE: Denis Adam and Hera Bird.