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Vivienne Plumb (New Zealand) is an award-winning poet, fiction writer and playwright. She has published four collections of poetry, a novel, a novella, two playscripts, and a collection of short fiction. Her work also appears in numerous New Zealand anthologies. Her new play, “The Cape,” recently received its first production at Circa Theatre in Wellington and has three more productions planned for 2008. Last year she held the 2006 writer-in-residence position at Massey University, and was made an Honorary Fellow at Hong Kong Baptist University where she also held a 2006 residency. This year she has held the inaugural writer-in-residence position in Rotorua, the iconic geothermal centre of New Zealand, also known as Sulphur City. Some of her poetry appears in “White Fungus,” an underground New Zealand magazine that will now be available in North America.

September 05, 2008
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