Raewyn Alexander (born 1955) is a New Zealand writer.[1] She has also worked in visual media, producing comics and clothing.[2]

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She was born in Hamilton, later moving to Auckland.[3] Alexander was editor for the arts magazine Magazine. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines, in the Auckland Poetry Live anthology and in the anthology Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page.[1]

In 2016 she had a lengthy essay published in Metro alleging she was engaged to Chris Knox. A spokesperson for Knox denied this, and Metro then retracted the story and apologised.[4]

Selected works

• Fat, novel (1996)
• Concrete, novel (1998)
• Love and Hate are Small Words with Big Names, poetry (1999)[3]
• Bacon is Not a Vegetable (701 Tips for Flatting), non-fiction, with Olwyn Stewart
• Sweet: A Guide for New Zealand Teenagers, non-fiction (2001), with Jan Hedge
• It's a Secret (Selected Poems 1993–2005), poetry chapbook (2005)
• Writing Poetry – fireworks, clay and architecture, non-fiction chapbook (2005)
• Museum of Lost Days, poetry (2008)
• Family of Artists, poetry (2012)
• Glam Rock Boyfriends, novel (2014), Brightspark Books, ISBN 0473266644
• Three Words: An anthology of Aotearoa / NZ Women's Comics, comics anthology, contributor, Beatnik (2016)

References

External links

• Raewyn's Poetic Journey & Trees for Travel on Blogger

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