Janet lives in Koputaroa in Horowhenua and is a Master of Creative Writing student at Massey University. Her poems have been published in a fine line, bravado, brief, Poetry NZ, snorkel, takahe and New Zealand Poetry Society anthologies. Her essay “Listening Harder: Reticulating Poetic Tradition in Michele Leggott’s ‘Blue Irises'” is included in the 2015 issue of the Journal of New Zealand Literature. Her poetry has also been published in “We Society” Poetry Anthology 2015.