Chris Tse is a New Zealand poet. A graduate of the IIML, Tse has been published in Sport, Turbine, Landfall, and numerous other literary journals. Much of Tse’s writing reflects his own heritage and cultural concerns, with his verse giving a voice to the Chinese experience in New Zealand. Tse’s debut poetry collection, How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes, won the Jessie Mackay Prize for Best First Book of Poetry in the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. It was followed by HE'S SO MASC (AUP, 2018) and Super Model Minority (AUP, 2022). Bio and photo courtesy of Read NZ.