Janet Charman Author

Janet Charman has an MA in English from the University of Auckland for which she completed a thesis on the novels of Jane Austen. She was the Literary Fellow (Writer in Residence) there in 1997. Her first collection of poems was published by New Women’s Press in 1987 and she has since published five books with AUP: red letter (1992), end of the dry (1995), Rapunzel Rapunzel (1999), snowing down south (2002) and cold snack (2007), winner of the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry. In 2009 she was the recipient of a month-long visiting fellowship at the International Writers Workshop of Hong Kong Baptist University. In the following year `at the white coast’ was co-winner of the International Writers' Workshop (Auckland) Kathleen Grattan Prize for an unpublished sequence of poems. Charman has supported her writing with work as a nurse, telephone operator and teacher and lives in Avondale, Auckland, with her partner and their two daughters.