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PIPER MEJIA IS AN ADVOCATE for New Zealand writers and literature. She was the co-editor of Write Off Line (2012/2013) and Beyond This ... (2012/2013), collections of writing by New Zealand intermediate and secondary students, and continues to manage both national writing competitions. In 2014 her short story “Lockdown” (included in the horror flash fiction collection Baby Teeth: Bite-Sized Tales of Terror) was shortlisted for the Sir Julius Vogel Award for science fiction and fantasy writing. Her young adult novella, The Fence, appeared in Conclave: A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy and she won a national poetry competition for her poem “Sounds of Evolution”. In her spare time she is a high school English teacher.
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