Janet Wainscott writes poetry and essays and is the author of A Game of Swans, published by Sudden Valley Press in 2023.

Janet’s main topics of interest are place, how we live and how we see the world.

Her poetry has appeared in Landfall, takahē, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, Catalyst and Shot Glass Journal, as well as in various anthologies. She was commended in the 2020 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine and won the 2017 NZSA Heritage Poetry competition. Her essays have appeared in takahē and in 2019 she won the NZSA Heritage Short Prose competition.

Janet lives near Christchurch, New Zealand.

Listen to Janet reading a selection of poems from A Game of Swans on Paula Green’s Poetry Shelf blog.

Instagram @janet.wainscott