Hera Lindsay Bird

Hera Lindsay Bird
Born	1988 Thames, New Zealand
Occupation	poet
Nationality	New Zealand
Period	2010s-present

Hera Lindsay Bird is a poet who lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Life and career

Hera Lindsay Bird was born and raised in Thames on the North Island of New Zealand. She attended Victoria University of Wellington and then received her Master's degree in poetry from its International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of poetry, the self-titled Hera Lindsay Bird, was published by Victoria University Press in 2016 and won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Bird first gained popularity when her poem "Keats Is Dead So Fuck Me From Behind"[1] went viral in the summer of 2016. She and her work have since been featured in VICE, I-D, and The Guardian.

Works

Poetry

• Hera Lindsay Bird (Victoria University Press, 2016)

External links

• Official website
• Bird's Twitter account
• Hera Lindsay Bird's author page at Victoria University Press
• "Hera Lindsay Bird: I prefer poetry that allows room for ugliness and error" on The Guardian
• "An Interview with Viral Poet Hera Lindsay Bird" on VICE
• "'Bisexuality', a Poem by Hera Lindsay Bird" on VICE
• ‘Keats is Dead so Fuck me From Behind’ by Hera Lindsay Bird