Jill Chan is a poet, fiction writer, and editor based in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of The Art of It: Three Novellas (2011), published as an ebook, and five books of poetry: On Love: a poem sequence (2011); Early Work: Poems 2000-2007 (2011); These Hands Are Not Ours (ESAW, 2009), winner of the Earl of Seacliff Poetry Prize; Becoming Someone Who Isn’t (ESAW, 2007); and The Smell of Oranges (ESAW, 2003). She is one of the poets featured in the New Zealand Poetry Sound Archive. Her poems have been published in various New Zealand and international magazines. She is the editor of Quantum Poetry Magazine, Numinous: Spiritual Poetry, Subtle Fiction and Best New Poems Online. -facebook profile