Helen Rickerby is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Cinema (Mākaro 2014), and is on the home stretch with her next collection, How to Live. She runs boutique publishing company Seraph Press and was co-managing editor of JAAM literary journal from 2005 to 2015. She was one of the organisers of the inaugural Ruapehu Writers Festival in March 2016. She is particularly interested in genre-crossing poetry, and with Anna Jackson and Angelina Sbroma she organised a conference on biographical poetry in 2014 and co-edited Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand (VUP 2016).