Rebecca Hawkes is a queer painter-poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first collection Meat Lovers (Auckland University Press) was a finalist in the US Lambda Literary Awards and winner of a Laurel Prize in the UK. She edits NZ poetry journal Sweet Mammalian and co-edited the Pacific climate crisis poetics anthology No Other Place to Stand. Rebecca holds a non-fiction MA from NZ’s IIML and an MFA in yearning (and, to a lesser extent, poetry) from the University of Michigan in the USA – where her poems have won awards from Palette, Salt Hill, and the Academy of American Poets, and found homes in the Threepenny, Georgia, Virginia Quarterly, and Missouri Reviews. Her illuminated manuscript chapbook HIDE is coming soon with Ngā Pukapuka Pekapeka in Aotearoa, and her next collection Fool’s Spring is forthcoming from Yes Yes Books and AUP in 2027.