Rebecca Hawkes grew up on a sheep and beef farm near Methven in the high country heart of Te Waipounamu, Aotearoa. She paints raw lamb racks strung with pearls, writes about queer rural idyll and beastly romantics, and is starting an MFA in poetry at the University of Michigan. Her debut poetry collection MEAT LOVERS was unleashed by AUP in 2022, winning Best First International Collection in the UK-based Laurel Prize and shortlisted for a Lambda literary award. She is a co-editor of online journal Sweet Mammalian and the climate poetry anthology No Other Place To Stand. Rebecca's chapbook ‘Softcore Coldsores’ and 'Hardcore Pastorals' can be found in AUP New Poets 5 and Cordite, respectively.

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