Claudia Jardine is the author of BITER. She has an MA in classics with distinction from Victoria University of Wellington, where she won the 2020 Alex Scobie Research Prize and a Marsden Grant for Masters scholarship. Her first chapbook, The Temple of Your Girl, was published in AUP New Poets 7. Her ancestors are from the British Isles and the Maltese Archipelago, she was born in Te Tihi o Maru and now she lives in Ōtautahi.
