Nat Baker

Kia ora, I’m a writer living in Auckland, New Zealand.

Publication History

• ‘Animal Life’ @ Headland [issue 12]
• ‘Get Delicious’ @ takahe [issue 94]
• ‘Stray’ @ Newsroom [may, 2020]
• ‘Firework’ @ milly magazine
• ‘Last Bird Island’ @ takahe [issue 103] & @ Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy [volume 4, Paper Road Press]
• ‘A Good Daughter’ @ Turbine | Kapohau [2022 issue]

Awards & Prizes

• Long-listed 2020 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom Writers Award
• First place 2021 takahe Short Story Prize; ‘Last Bird Island’
• Short-listed 2022 Sargeson Prize; ‘A Good Daughter’
• Third place (equal) 2023 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom Writers Award

Books I’m reading (and/or listening to)

• Pet by Catherine Chidgey
• Sisters by Daisy Johnson
• The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
• And I do not forgive you: stories and other revenges by Amber Sparks
• Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
• The Rachel Incident by Caroline O’ Donoghue