Anna Forsyth is a New-Zealand born writer and musician. For her day job, she writes and edits educational text books. Her first collection of poetry, A Tender Moment Between Strangers, was released in 2013 and her poems have appeared in several journals, including Landfall, FourW and n-Scribe. In 2012, she started Girls on Key, a bi-monthly music and poetry gig for women performers, raising funds for refugee girls to learn music. In her spare time, she performs music under the name Grace Pageant and has released an EP, Little Bonfire which we will be hearing some of today. When she grows up, she would like to be a wandering philosopher in Paris.