First fox

Leanne Radojkovich’s debut short story collection First fox was published by The Emma Press in 2017. Her work has been anthologised in Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand and the forthcoming Best Small Fictions 2021. In 2018 she won the Graeme Lay Short Story Competition and was a finalist in the Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction. She was longlisted for the 2020 Short Fiction/University of Essex Prize and shortlisted for the 2020 Sargeson Prize. Leanne holds a Master of Creative Writing (First Class Honours) from AUT Auckland University of Technology. She has Dalmatian heritage and was born in Kirikiriroa Hamilton. She now lives in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, where she works as a librarian. Rachel J Fenton is an award-winning graphic poet and writer. She was awarded a Creative New Zealand Arts Grant to research and write a graphic biography, which she is documenting on Instagram @redhousemary. Under the name ‘Rae Joyce’, she co-edited Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women’s Comics (Beatnik, 2016), and her work is featured in Island to Island (Dala/Upstart Press, 2016). She lives in Auckland.

Simple, but wonderfully so, telling the reader all they need to know. Radojkovich’s writing knows where embellishment is needed, and recognises when sparse language is effective. Siobhan Denton, Sabotage Reviews