Rebecca Hawkes

Rebecca is a poet and painter from Aotearoa New Zealand, where she grew up on a high country farm in Te Waipounamu. She obsesses over beastliness, weeds, bi chaos and shiny geology.

Her book Meat Lovers (AUP 2022) ~~~odes to food, farming, and romantic folly ~~~ won Best First International Collection in the UK Poet Laureate's ecopoetry-focused Laurel Prize, and was shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award.

She is lead editor for the teeny yet bloodthirsty journal Sweet Mammalian, and co-edited an anthology of climate crisis poetry from Aotearoa and the Pacific, No Other Place to Stand (AUP 2022)