Sophia Wilson is an Australian-born writer based in Aotearoa with her partner and three daughters. Her poetry has appeared in journals and anthologies in Australasia and overseas and won awards including the 2021 Robert Burns Poetry Competition, the 2021 Hippocrates Prize, and the 2021 Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize. She hosts New Zealand Society of Authors Southland Branch Writers' Salon and is a member of Ōtepoti Dunedin’s poetry live collective. In 2022 she was joint-winner of the inaugural Flying Islands Poetry Prize for the manuscript En Cas D’Urgence, subsequently published as Sea Skins. https://sophiakwilson.wordpress.com/