Rachel J Fenton is a working-class writer living in Te Waipounamu. Shortlisted for the Text Publishing Prize, she won the Auckland University of Technology Graphic Fiction Prize, was awarded a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant to research, write, and draw a graphic biography of Mary Taylor, and a chapbook of poems about the research process, Beerstorming with Charlotte Brontë in New York, is published by The Ethel Zine and Micro Press. I live in a little town called Oamaru, in North Otago.