Courtney Sina Meredith
New Zealand poet, playwright, and author
Courtney Sina Meredith (born 1986) is a New Zealand poet, playwright, short story author, and for-purpose leader. She has held executive director roles at organisations such as Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, RainbowYOUTH, and the Publishers Association of New Zealand.
Background
Born in 1986, Meredith grew up in Glen Innes and is of Samoan, Cook Island and Irish descent. She attended Ponsonby Primary School, Ponsonby Intermediate School, and Western Springs College, her mother Kim Meredith is also a poet. Meredith studied English and Political Studies at the University of Auckland.
Career
Meredith's writing is often political, dealing with issues such as poverty, conflict, sexism and racism, and draws on her roots in the Samoan diaspora of Auckland.
Meredith's play Rushing Dolls, was published in 2012 in the collection Urbanesia: Four Pasifika Plays. She has also published Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick, a book of poetry, and Tail of the Taniwha, a collection of short stories and poetry. Her work has been translated into Italian, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Bahasa Indonesia.
Work by Meredith has also been published in literary journals including Poetry New Zealand, What's Poetry?
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