Jenny Bornholdt

Jenny Bornholdt

Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.

Biography

Born in Lower Hutt, Bornholdt received a bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism. She studied poetry with Bill Manhire at Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.

She is co-editor of "My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems" and the Oxford "Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English", which won the Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry in 1997. In addition, Bornholdt won the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, was a recipient of one of the 2003 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards, and was named the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 2005. Her poems were selected for the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005.

Books

Her poetry

Bornholdt's poetry has been published in a number of volumes:
* 1988: "This Big Face"
* 1989: "Moving House"
* 1991: "Waiting Shelter"
* 1995: "How We Met"
* 1997: "Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems"
* 2000: "These Days"
* 2003: "Summer"

Editor

* Co-editor, with Gregory O'Brien, "My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems", Random House New Zealand (2000) ISBN-10: 0908877811, ISBN-13: 978-0908877812
* Co-editor "Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English"

External References

* [http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/authors/bornholdt/ New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre]
* [http://www.bookcouncil.org.nz/writers/bornholdt.html New Zealand Book Council]


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