Megan Kitching is a poet and author of At the Point of Seeing (Otago University Press, 2023), winner of the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry in the 2024 Mātātuhi Foundation Best First Book Awards.

She works as an editorial assistant at Otago Polytechnic and a research assistant at the University of Otago in Ōtepoti Dunedin, Aotearoa New Zealand.

She holds a PhD in English Literature from Queen Mary University, London. Her poetry has been published in the Otago Daily Times, The Frogmore Papers (UK), takahē, Tarot, Landfall and the Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook. In March 2021 she was the inaugural recipient of the Caselberg Trust’s Elizabeth Brooke-Carr Emerging Writers Residency.