Sarah Broom was born in Dunedin, New Zealand May 31, 1972. She spent seven years in the UK, studying and working in Leeds and Oxford, returning to New Zealand in 2000. She is the author of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Tigers at Awhitu (2010) is her first collection of poems. A second volume titled Gleam was published posthumously.