Rebecca Hawkes is a queer painter-poet originally from rural Aotearoa New Zealand. Her first book MEAT LOVERS won Best First International Collection in the UK Poet Laureate's 2022 Laurel Prize and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist for bisexual poetry. She is head shepherd of warm-blooded literary journal Sweet Mammalian and co-edited the Antipodean climate crisis anthology No Other Place to Stand. In the US her poems have been awarded Salt Hill's Philip Booth Poetry Prize and Palette Poetry's Sappho Prize, with more work published or forthcoming in Phoebe, Hayden's Ferry Review, Glass, Gigantic Sequins, and elsewhere. Rebecca is currently topsy-turvy between hemispheres studying an MFA in yearning (and, to a lesser extent, poetry) at the University of Michigan.