Who is Harvest Bird?
Harvest Bird is thirty-two years old, a writer and university teacher who lives in Sockburn, New Zealand, an area of which another kiwi blogger once wrote:
I remember, the name was the first thing I noticed when I looked at map of Christchurch. Sockburn. Sock, Burn. Sockburn is an industrial zone. The whole area is a testament to human kind's ability to manufacture, warehouse and dispatch.
In these environs h-bird maintains a secret garden behind two fences, designed to keep out door-knockers and keep in her three Norwich Terriers, to whom she is inordinately devoted. By day she is an employee of Concrete University, where she teaches preparatory courses, mostly in literature and film. By night she is a writer, a reader and a cinephile.
Since none but the harvestparents deigns to live nearby, h-bird frequently ventures afield, both locally, nationally and (when her credit stretches) internationally. Her pseudonymous family and friends people this journal as a result.