Yvette Thomas

Yvette has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. She won the Caselberg International Poetry Prize in 2022 for her poem ‘Not What You Wanted’, which featured in Landfall. In 2023 Yvette also received the Kendrick Smithyman Scholarship in Poetry and the Shimon Weinroth Prize in Poetry. Her debut colletion of poems ‘Ten Thousand Nights’ can be found at www.castlestreetpress.com or at selected bookshops.