About Miriam Barr

Miriam Barr is an Auckland based poet who grew up in the Far North. She studies psychology and performs her poetry with The Literatti. Her poems have been published in Brief, Poetry NZ, Landfall, Takahe, JAAM, Blackmail Press, Potroast and REM Magazine. She has been a creative writing tutor at Toi Ora, a coordinator and MC at Poetry Live, a Poetry Idol slam champion (2007), editor of the poetry zine Side Stream and creative director of The Literatti.