Author: Rebecca Hawkes

Rebecca Hawkes (she/her) is a poet, painter,and editor. Her debut collection Meat Lovers (AUP 2022) was awarded Best International First Collection 2022 in the UK Poet Laureate’s eco-poetry Laurel Prize. She edits the poetry journal Sweet Mammalian, and has co-edited an anthology of poetry on climate change, No Other Place To Stand (AUP 2022), and is a founding member of popstar poets’ posse Show Ponies. Raised on a sheep and beef farm near Methven, Rebecca now lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, coddling her carnivorous plants.