Our judge 2023

Morgan Bach

Morgan Bach lives and works in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. A graduate of the IIML Creative Writing MA programme, she was recipient of the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry in 2013. Her first book, Some of us eat the seeds, was published by THWUP in 2015. With Hannah Mettner and Sugar Magnolia Wilson, she was a founding co-editor (2014 – 2019) of the poetry journal Sweet Mammalian. Her new book of poems, Middle Youth, is forthcoming with Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2023.

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