Kingdom of Daughters
by Carrie Rudzinski
Carrie Rudzinski is an American-New Zealand poet who has performed her work over the past 20 years in seven countries and featured in Bustle, HuffPost, and Teen Vogue. She is the co-editor of Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2023) and her work has been published in such collections as Landfall, The Spinoff, Stasis Journal, Sweet Mammalian, Takahē, and Muzzle. She won Best New Aotearoa Play for her poetic theatre work Hysterical at the Wellington Theatre Awards and completed her Masters of Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington.