Joan Fleming (poet)

Fleming grew up in Sydney, Australia, until employment opportunities spurred the family to relocate first to Bermuda, then Golden, Colorado, before finally settling in Auckland, New Zealand.

She studied creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University, where she won the Biggs Poetry Prize[1] in 2007.

She graduated from the University of Otago with a Master of Arts with a thesis on the iterative poetry of Anne Carson.

Fleming's grandparents were stationed as Baptist missionaries in the town of Yuendumu,[5] in the Northern Territory of Australia.

[6] She has published a number of collections of poetry, as well as writing and co-editing works of literary criticism, essays, short stories and book reviews for publications in Australia, New Zealand and overseas.