Ash

LOUISE WALLACE is the author of four collections of poems, including THIS IS A STORY ABOUT YOUR MOTHER (2023). She is the founder and editor of Starling, an online journal publishing the work of young writers from Aotearoa, and the editor of Orongohau | Best New Zealand Poems 2022. She is a recipient of the Biggs Prize for Poetry and a Robert Burns fellow. She grew up in Gisborne and lives in Otepoti Dunedin. ASH is her debut novel.

Louise Wallace writes the excruciating and transformative with such precision it’s almost impossible to believe. This is a razor-sharp novel: claustrophobic and expansive at once, full of terror and dark humour.