Below is a light, highly incomplete selection of my published work, spanning poetry, pop culture essays, food writing, travel writing, anthologies, and a playlist about horses. Beyond that, the most up-to-the-minute representation of the words coming out of my head will always be hungryandfrozen.com.
NOVEL | Hoods Landing
Āporo Press, 2025
The book of the year, ask for it by name at your independent bookshop, library, and multinational corporations.
COOKBOOK | Hungry & Frozen
Penguin, 2013
This cult-hit cookbook is only available to the lucky few, but you might be able to find a copy at sites like Twice Cooked.
ANTHOLOGY | Spoiled Fruit: Queer Poetry from Aotearoa
Āporo Press, 2023
Compiles work largely first published on bad apple and asks these poets to reflect upon their work to create new pieces. Learn more and look for it at your local independent bookstore.
ANTHOLOGY | PŪHIA: ISSUE RUA
@maorilitblog, 2024
The second instalment of a journal dedicated to showcasing literature and art by Māori creatives. PŪHIA aims to broadcast emerging and established Māori voices in the literary world.
POEM | ACTIVITIES
The Spinoff, 2019
You know when you’re not strong enough to articulate your feelings because all of your strength is being used for one thing and that one thing is ACTIVITIES / endless ACTIVITIES
POEM | Anecdotal Happiness
The Spinoff, 2020 and No Other Place to Stand, 2022
There was a story on the six o’clock news / “Scientists have discovered that only bad things are happening now / It seems nothing good will happen on a grand scale ever again”
POEM | Boléro, after Boléro by Maurice Ravel
bad apple, 2025
I can fit my whole fist /
inside the contrabass bugle /
it does not muffle the human breath /
breath that has a job to do
SHORT STORY | Beach Festival
Shirley Magazine, 2021
content warning: violent and potentially distressing occurrences
Beach Festival said the newspaper ad. My sister ran her finger over the list of acts and prodded my upper arm.
“We simply have to go,” she said. I agreed, rubbing the sore spot where she’d jabbed me. Summer arrived like a pan of water boiled dry, leaving only a scorch mark.
ESSAY & RECIPE| Pesto Potato Pizza for ‘The Baby-Sitters Club’ TV Series
Tenderly, 2020
In Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited, Captain Charles Ryder realizes he will be returning with his battalion to the same castle where he spent much of his youth. This unexpected reminder of times past shakes him to his very skeleton, and the outside world is silenced as he’s left in a trance, absolutely kneecapped by memories.
ESSAY | That’s pure Moira Rose: the influences behind Schitt’s Creek’s bizarro queen
The Spinoff, 2019
What makes Moira Rose worthy of this title isn’t just her arresting appearance – her ostentatious monochrome wardrobe standing in defiant contrast to the Schitt’s Creek townsfolk’s denim and plaid. Nor is it just her recondite lexicon and unpredictable accent, heavy with zig-zagging vowels.
POEM | Up the Front of the Plane
Peach Mag, 2020
It’s a different world up the front of the plane / happy and calm / complimentary iPads / grapefruit juice squeezed in front of you / A view of the Eiffel tower from every window— A person could fall in love up here
TRAVEL WRITING| Town and country in Nashville
Sunday Star-Times, 2013
Anyway, southern hospitality overrides all – I, sitting on a high stool, accidentally kick a passing man with my foot. He turns to me and says “ma’am” with such apologetic force that I don’t quite know what to do with myself.
ESSAY & PLAYLIST | 31 Songs Anyone Who Loves Horses Needs to Hear
Tenderly, 2020
Like birds, horses in art represent freedom and beauty. Unlike most birds, there’s also a terrifying unknowable magnitude to the horse. Whatever your stance on the ethics of humans’ long working relationship with horses, we can happily celebrate them in song form, from country to blues to electronica to whatever it is that Brian Eno is up to.
Laura Vincent, 21st Century Writer 