Lynn Davidson is a New Zealand writer living in Edinburgh. She writes poetry, essays and fiction, including a sonnet series Return to Kāpiti Island published by House of Three Publishers in Edinburgh in 2018. Lynn’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies including PN Review, Sport, Best of Best New Zealand Poems, Essential New Zealand Poems, TEXT, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, and Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World. She is one part of 12 (a collaboration of 12 Edinburgh women writers). In 2016 Lynn spent time writing in a bothy in the Cairngorms on a Bothy Project Residency. In 2013 she had a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, and in 2011 was Visiting Artist at Massey University in New Zealand. She recently completed a Ph.D in Creative Writing through Massey University. Lynn teaches creative writing and works as a learning advisor in libraries for Edinburgh Council.

Photo by Suzanne Livingston.