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CHLOE GORDON was born in Auckland in 1984 and now lives in Wellington, where she is taking Damien Wilkins’ short fiction course at Victoria University. Her first experience in a creative writing class was at Epsom Girls’ Grammar, Auckland. She won the junior section of the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Competition in 2000 and 2001, the first person to claim first prize in two consecutive years. An accomplished actor, she has appeared in the New Zealand television series Shortland Street and Mercy Peak.
Gordon recommends as a “good poetry quote (albeit not a New Zealand one) e.e. cummings’ remark: ‘If you like my poems, let them walk in the evening, a little behind you.’” Of “Fresh Orange Juice” she writes: “I don’t know that there’s much I can say apart from that I wrote it when I was fifteen and still living in Auckland. (I read it at a school assembly once!) Kingsland is another emerging cafe strip. The Bombay hills are just south of Auckland.”
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