Johanna Emeney is a Cambridge graduate with a postgraduate diploma in education and is currently a tutor of creative writing at Massey University, Auckland, where she gained her PhD. She has published two books of poetry, Apple and tree (Cape Catley, 2011) and Family History (Ma karo Press, 2017), and an academic book, The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities (Ibidem Press, 2018).