Brindi Joy is a writer and editor in the backpacker industry. She has lived in Seattle, Denver, New Orleans and she currently lives in Christchurch where she makes the most of the mountains and the sea. She is a graduate of the Hagley Writers’ Institute and won the Year 2 Margaret Mahy Award for Best Portfolio in 2013. Her fiction has appeared in Landfall, JAAM, the Christchurch Press, Flash Frontier, Takahe and a recent collection of New Zealand short stories, Sweet As.