“Writing saves my life. I write every day. It gives shape to my dreams and responses, it is a voice that is and isn’t me. Ha! the disappearing trick of it.” 

Gail Zing (aka Gail Ingram) writes and lives on the tussock-clad Heathcote hills of Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. She is the author of three poetry collections anthology (n.) a collection of flowers (Pūkeko Publicataions 2024), Some Bird (SVP 2023) and Contents Under Pressure (Pūkeko Publications 2019). She is also the editor of two anthologies, The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation (2018) and After the Cyclone (2017), both published by New Zealand Poetry Society. She has been an editor for several Aotearoa NZ literary journals, including the managing poetry editor for a fine line, the flagship magazine of the New Zealand Poetry Society, and co-poetry editor for the Christchurch notable, takahē magazine, at the time it celebrated its acclaimed 100th edition. She holds a First Class Masters of Creative Writing from Massey University, and graduated cum laude from Hagley Writers Institute in 2006. 

Her poetry and fiction is widely published in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. She is an experienced freelance editor and teacher of writing.