Heather Bauchop
North East Valley, Dunedin
I was born in San Francisco to lost
Scottish parents who migrated to New Zealand via Aberdeen in
1971. My short fiction and poetry have appeared in a number of
journals, including Takahē (I was the winner of the 2016 Takahē
short story competition with ‘Helicopter’) Headland, Alluvia and
Poetry New Zealand, and in the 2017 anthology Fresh Ink. In
2018, I was awarded a mentorship by the New Zealand Society of
Authors. My first poetry collection 'Remembering a Place I’ve Never
Been' was published by Cold Hub Press in October 2018. 'The Life in
Small Deaths' manuscript won the 2018 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a
Sequence of Poems, one of New Zealand's premier poetry prizes. I
have completed a collection of short stories (currently in search of
a publisher) and am just finishing a poetry collection drawing
together medicine and poetry. Lockdown has involved lots of looking
out the window.
Written and completed 8 May 2020
Starlings on the power line
