Claire Beynon is an artist, writer and interdisciplinary researcher living in Otepoti Dunedin. Her poetry, flash fiction and short stories have been widely published and anthologised, and she has won or been shortlisted for a number of awards including winning the Takahe Monica Taylor Poetry Prize in 2021 for 'Today's Sky'. She works in collaborative partnerships with scientists, composers, artists and writers around the globe, and two summer research seasons in Antarctica continue to inform her work. Her first collection was Open Book: Poetry & Images.