Joan Fleming

Joan Fleming is a Canadian-born, New Zealand-Australian writer who has lived in the US, Bermuda, and Spain. Her honours include fellowships from Creative New Zealand, the Biggs Poetry Prize, and the Michael King Writers Centre. She has published two collections of poetry, The Same as Yes and Failed Love Poems with Te Herenga Waka University Press, a verse novel called Song of Less (Cordite Books), and the pamphlets Two Dreams in Which Things Are Taken (Duets) and Some People’s Favourites (Desperate Literature). She holds a PhD in ethnopoetics from Monash University, Melbourne, and is the 2025 Kaipukahu Writer-in-Residence at the University of Waikato in Aotearoa.