Lynn Davidson

Lynn Davidson writes poetry, memoir, essays and fiction. Her memoir Do you still have time for chaos? was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press (Wellington) in 2024 and comes out with Main Point Books (Edinburgh) later this year. Her latest poetry collection, Islander, was published by Shearsman Books (Bristol) and Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2019. Lynn had a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2013 and a Bothy Project Residency in 2016. She won the Poetry New Zealand Poetry Award, 2020, and was the Randell Cottage Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence, 2021, and the Mike Riddell Writer in Residence, 2023. Lynn calls Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland home.