Miro Bilbrough

Miro Bilbrough is a filmmaker, writer and poet whose memoir of a counter-culture New Zealand adolescence, In the Time of the Manaroans was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction 2021. She wrote and directed the feature films Being Venice (2012) and Floodhouse (2004), an adaptation of Herman Melville’s Bartleby (2001), and the ciné-poem Urn (1995). She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the Writing and Society Research Centre, WSU, and makes her living as a script editor and a teacher of screenwriting. She is published in HEAT Series 3 Number 19.