Joy, our 13th resident for the year, lives in Pōneke. Her debut collection of short fiction Dream Girl was published by Te Herenga Waka University Press in 2023. She completed her MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2020. Her writing can be found in journals and anthologies in Aotearoa and overseas, including The Pantograph Punch, The Spinoff and Starling.
During her residency Joy will be working on a first draft of her second book, a Gothic novel.