Janis Freegard lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She writes fiction and poetry and has a day job too.

You can read one of her short stories here: http://www.bnz.co.nz/binaries/2001MainAwardWinningStory.pdf

and some of her poems here: http://www.nzetc.org/iiml/turbine/Turbi05/poetry/freegard1.html

and here: http://www.blackmailpress.com/JFgard13.html

and here: http://www.poetrynz.net/archives/issue-27/#poem2