Jenny Bornholdt
Jenny Bornholdt is a poet and anthologist. She has written nine books of poetry, including a selected poems: Miss New Zealand. Her most recent book, The Rocky Shore (2008), won the Montana Book Award for Poetry in 2009.
With her husband – poet and artist Gregory O’Brien – she has co-edited My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems (1996) and The Colour of Distance: New Zealand Writers in France / French Writers in New Zealand (2005). With Mark Williams, Bornholdt and O’Brien edited An Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (1997), which won the 1997 Montana Book Award for Poetry.
Bornholdt has been an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate, and was the Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate 2005-7. She is currently Writer in Residence at Victoria University.
