Jenny Bornholdt
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Jenny Bornholdt (born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand in 1960) is an award-winning poet and anthologist. She currently lives in Wellington.
Bornholdt's poetry has been published in a number of volumes: This Big Face (1988), Moving House (1989), Waiting Shelter (1991), How We Met (1995), Miss New Zealand: Selected Poems (1997), These Days (2000), and Summer (2003). She is co-editor of My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand Love Poems and the Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English, which won the Montana NZ Book Award for Poetry in 1997. In addition, Bornholdt won the 2002 Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship, was a recipient of one of the 2003 Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Awards, and was named the fifth Te Mata Estate New Zealand Poet Laureate in 2005.
Bornholdt received a B.A. in English Literature and a Diploma in Journalism. She studied poetry with Bill Manhire at Victoria University of Wellington in 1984.
