Sue Wootton has published five volumes of poetry and has received several awards, including the 2015 Caselburg Trust International Poetry Prize and second place in the 2013 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She won the 2011 NZ Poetry Society International Poetry Competition and has twice won the Takahe Poetry Competition. Her first novel, Strip (Makaro Press, 2016), is longlisted for the fiction prize in the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Awards. A former physiotherapist, Sue lives in Dunedin where she is the selecting editor for the Otago Daily Times Weekend Poem column, and co-editor of the Medical Humanities blog Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life. suewootton.com
"Wootton makes the words shimmy with fresh metaphors, the unspoken, the sound of the everyday." Paula Green, NZ Books Autumn 2009
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