Carrie Rudzinski has performed her poetry over the past 17 years in six countries and been featured in Bustle, HuffPost and Teen Vogue. She is a founder of JAFA Poetry Slam and co-editor of Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2023). Carrie is also the co-creator of three poetry theatre shows - How We Survive (2019), The Bitching Hour (2023), and Hysterical (2022) - the latter of which won Best New Aotearoa Play at the Wellington Theatre Awards and Outstanding Performance Poetry at Auckland Fringe Festival.