Airini Beautrais
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Bug Week & Other Stories
Dr Airini Beautrais | |
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.jpg) Airini Beautrais in 2021 | |
| Born | 1982 (age 43–44) New Zealand |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Victoria University of Wellington |
| Notable works | Secret Heart Bug Week & Other Stories |
| Notable awards | NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction |
Airini Jane Beautrais (born 1982) is a poet and short-story writer from New Zealand.
Beautrais was born in 1982 and grew up in Auckland and Whanganui.[1] She studied creative writing and ecological science at the Victoria University of Wellington.[2] In 2016 she received her PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, under doctoral advisors Harry Ricketts and James Brown.[3][4][5]
As of 2021[update], Beautrais lives in Whanganui with her two sons.[6]
Works
Beautrais's writing draws on her personal experiences, and is often set in her hometown of Whanganui.[7]
Beautrais has published four collections of poetry with Victoria University Press: Secret Heart (2006); Western Line (2011); Dear Neil Roberts (VUP, 2014); and Flow: Whanganui River Poems (2017).[2] In 2020 Victoria University Press published a collection of her short stories, titled Bug Week & Other Stories.[8] The collection had taken her ten years to write, and she has said it was inspired by "the female experience, from girlhood through to middle age and end of life".[6][9]
She has been published in the Best New Zealand Poems series (2016)[10] and literary journals, including Overland, [11] and Penduline.[12]
