About the Author

Frankie McMillan is a poet and short-story writer who lives in Christchurch. She is the author of The Bag Lady's Picnic and other stories (Shoal Bay Press, 2001) and a poetry collection, Dressing for the Cannibals (Sudden Valley Press, 2009). She won first prize in the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition 2009 for her poem 'My father's balance', and in 2013 was the winner of the New Zealand National Flash Fiction Award. McMillan was awarded the Creative New Zealand Todd New Writers' Bursary in 2005 and was co-recipient of the Ursula Bethell residency in creative writing at the University of Canterbury in 2014.