Paula Joy Green (born 1955) is a New Zealand poet and children's author.

Background

Green was born in 1955, in

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. She attended the

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. In 2005 Green received her PhD in Italian, supervised by Bernadette Luciano, and was Literary Fellow at the

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. Green is married to the painter

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and currently lives in Auckland.

Career

Green has published several collections of her own poetry including: * ''Cookhouse'' (1997, Auckland University Press) * ''Chrome'' (2000, Auckland University Press) * ''Crosswind'' (2004, Auckland University Press) * ''Making Lists for Francis Hodgkins'' (2007, Auckland University Press) * ''Slip Stream'' (2010, Auckland University Press) * ''The Baker's Thumbprint'' (2013, Seraph Press) * ''New York Pocket Book'' (2017, Seraph Press) * "The Track" (2019, Seraph Press) Her books for children include: * ''Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo'' (2006, Auckland University Press), as editor, written in collaboration with fifty children, illustrated by

* ''The Terrible Night'' (2008, Random House), illustrated by Chris Grosz * ''Macaroni Moon'' (2008, Random House), illustrated by

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* ''Aunt Concertina and Her Niece Evalina ''(2009, Random House), illustrated by Michael Hight * ''The Letterbox Cat and Other Poems'' (2014, Scholastic), illustrated by Myles Lawford * ''Treasury of NZ Poems for Children'' (2014, Random House), as editor, illustrated by Jenny Cooper * 'Groovy Fish and other poems (2019, The Cuba Press) Poems by Green have been published in the

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, including the 2002, 2004, and 2006 editions. She was guest editor for the publication in 2007. Green has also been selected as a featured poet in the journal,

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, and appeared in the British literary journal ''Fire.'' In 2010, with

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, she co-authored ''99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry''. She has also edited an anthology of love poems entitled ''Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems''. In 2019 Green published Wild Honey: Reading NZ Women's Poetry (Massey University Press) which was shortlisted for the Ockham NZ Book Awards in 2020. Green has been a judge for several literary awards including the

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, 2008 New Zealand Post Secondary School Poetry Competition, and 2014

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. Green maintains two blogs with a focus on poetry, one targeting adults, NZ Poetry Shelf, and the other aimed at children, NZ Poetry Box.

Awards

Green won the poetry prize in the 2017

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. In the

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, Green was appointed a

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for services as a poet and to literature.

Book awards

''99 Ways into New Zealand Poetry'' was a finalist in the General Non-Fiction category of the 2011

. The Storylines Children's Literature Charitable Trust of New Zealand has recognised several of her children's books, three receiving the Notable Non-Fiction Book title (''Flamingo Bendalingo: Poems from the Zoo'' in 2007, ''Treasury of NZ Poems for Children'' in 2015'','' and ''The Letterbox Cat & Other Poems'', also in 2015) and ''Aunt Concertina and her Niece Evalina'' in 2010 as a Notable Picture Book. ''The Letterbox Cat and Other Poems'' was shortlisted for the 2015 LIANZA Children's Book Awards and won the Children's Choice Non-Fiction Award at the 2015

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