Nina Mingya Powles is a writer, editor and publisher from Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of three poetry collections, including Magnolia,木蘭, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize; and Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai. In 2019 she won the Nan Shepherd Prize for Small Bodies of Water, and in 2018 she won the Women Poets’ Prize. She is the founding editor of Bitter Melon 苦瓜. Nina was born in Aotearoa, partly grew up in China, and now lives in London.
