Jessica Le Bas

Jessica Le Bas is a Rarotonga-based poet from New Zealand.

Jessica Le Bas
Le Bas at the Sarah Broom Poetry Prize ceremony at Auckland Writers Festival 2019, in Auckland, New Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Alma materUniversity of Auckland
GenrePoetry
Notable worksIncognito, Walking to Africa
Notable awardsNZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry, Sarah Broom Poetry Prize 2019

Background

Le Bas received her MA(Hons) from the University of Auckland.[1] She is currently based in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.[2]

Career

During the Balkan Wars, Le Bas worked for the United Nations as a Training Consultant for UNPROFOR. She has worked at the Beehive in Wellington as Private Secretary to a government Minister. She took Owen Marshall’s Fiction Writing Course at Aoraki and after receiving a grant from Creative New Zealand.[1]

Le Bas has published two collections of poetry, Incognito in 2007,[3] and Walking to Africa in 2009.[4] In 2010, she published her first children's book, Staying Home: My True Diary of Survival, under the pseudonym ‘Jesse O’.[5]

Poems by Le Bas have appeared in the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2007.[6] She has also published in a number of literary journals including Sport,[7] Blackmail Press,[8][9] and Trout.[10] She was featured in issue 32 of Poetry New Zealand.[11]

Awards

Incognito won the 2007 NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[12]

In 2007, she received a New Zealand Mental Health Foundation Media Grant to write Walking to Africa, which was a finalist in the Ashton Wylie Book Awards.[1][13]

Le Bas has also won the New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, 2005 Bravado Poetry Competition,[11] and been shortlisted in the Landfall Essay Competition.[1][14]

In 2019, she won the 2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.[2]

References
  1. "Jessica Le Bas". Auckland University Press. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  2. "Winner announced ‐ Sarah Broom Poetry Prize 2019". Sarah Broom Poetry Prize. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
  3. Le Bas, Jessica (2007). Incognito. Auckland University Press. ISBN 9781869403928.
  4. Le Bas, Jessica (2009). Walking to Africa. Auckland University Press. ISBN 9781869403928.
  5. "Staying Home, by Jesse O". fishpond.co.nz. Retrieved 18 March 2020.
  6. "Best New Zealand Poems 2007". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  7. "Jessica Le Bas — incognito, my love". NZETC. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  8. "Blackmail Press 24". Blackmail Press. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  9. "BMP13 The 36 inch bust issue". Blackmail Press. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  10. Le Bas, Jessica. "Jessica Le Bas: snap shots". Trout. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  11. "Poetry New Zealand Issue 32". Poetry New Zealand. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  12. "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  13. "Winner announced ‐ Sarah Broom Poetry Prize 2019". Booksellers. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
  14. "Jessica Le Bas - Best New Zealand Poems 2007". nzetc.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
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