Bronte Heron is a pākehā poet, writer, and arts worker from Aotearoa, currently based in Gariwerd, Australia. Their work explores the intersections of ecology, open systems, family, and transformation, and has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation, the Lois Roth Foundation, the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, Sundress Academy for the Arts, Woodward Residency, and Story Inc. They have received graduate degrees in creative writing from The New School (Manahatta) and the International Institute of Modern Letters (Te Whanganui-a-Tara), for which they are very thankful. Their poem First Shave was Highly Commended in the 2024 Monica Taylor Poetry Competition, judged by Renee Liang 梁文蔚. They are currently at work on their first collection of poetry, Nighttime Gardener. For more information, visit www.bronteheron.com.
