Rebecca Reader took courses with Gotham Writers Workshop before completing her MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka. Her MA portfolio was a collection of poems inspired by the life and art of the British-Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington. Rebecca’s stories and poems have appeared in the journals Landfall, Takahē, Turbine, Mslexia, and Prole, and in the anthologies Solamente en San Miguel and Arbolarium.