Victoria Broome is a social worker and mental health counsellor with Pegasus Health.  She has been published in various NZ journals and anthologies and in 2 books with the Poetry Chooks; The Chook Book and Flap. She was awarded the Louis Johnson Bursary in 2005 from Creative NZ, was second equal in the Kathleen Grattan Award in 2010,  a past editor of Takahe magazine and was an inaugural Hagley Writers’ Institute student in 2008 and 2009.