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Sue Wootton

Sue Wootton’s most recent publications are her debut novel Strip (Mākaro Press, 2016), which was longlisted for the fiction prize in the 2017 Ockham NZ Book Awards, and her fifth poetry collection The Yield (OUP, 2017). A former physiotherapist, Sue has a longstanding interest in the intersection of the humanities with healthcare. She is currently a PhD candidate at Otago University, researching how literary writing contributes to the understanding of illness and wellbeing. Sue is the selecting editor for the Otago Daily Times Weekend Poem column, and co-editor of the weekly blog Corpus: Conversations about Medicine and Life. suewootton.com

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Sue Wootton at DWRF 2017
Poets on Place
Word Balm
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