Jenny Bornholdt

Jennifer Mary Bornholdt (born 1 November 1960) is an award-winning New Zealand poet and anthologist.

Life
Bornholdt was born in Lower Hutt, near Wellington. She 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.

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 New Zealand Book Award for Poetry for Poetry in 1997. Her poems were selected for the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2005.

Recognition
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.

Poetry

 * This Big Face. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1988.
 * Moving House. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1989.
 * Waiting Shelter. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1991.
 * How We Met. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1995.
 * Miss New Zealand: Selected poems. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 1997.
 * The Way (with Brendan O'Brien). Wellington: Fernbank Studio, 2000.
 * These Days. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2000.
 * Summer. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2003.
 * Mrs. Winter's Jump. Auckland: Godwit, 2007.
 * Two Walk in Paris. Wellington: Fernbank Studio, 2007.
 * The Rocky Shore. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2008.
 * The Hill of Wool. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2011.

Juvenile

 * A Book is a Book (illustrated by Sarah Wilkins). Wellington: Gecko Press, 2013.

Edited

 * My Heart Goes Swimming: New Zealand love poems (edited with Gregory O'Brien). Auckland: Godwit, 1995.
 * Oxford Anthology of New Zealand Poetry in English (edited with Gregory O'Brien & Mark Williams). Auckland: Oxford University Press New Zealand, 1997.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

External references

 * Poems
 * Bornholdt, Jenny at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre]
 * About
 * Bornholdt, Jenny at the New Zealand Book Council