Kia ora! I'm Benjamin Jardine, a New Zealand-American writer, journalist, designer, improviser, and musician. I've spent half my life in beautiful New Zealand and the other half in sunny Los Angeles, California. I currently reside in New York City. 

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My work has appeared in magazines, in theaters, on billboards, on websites, and in apps across the Pacific.

 

My poems have been twice published in the New Zealand Poetry Yearbook (in 2022 and 2024). My fiction has been shortlisted twice for New Zealand's National Flash Fiction Day prize (2021 and 2022).

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In 2024, I am progressing through Google's UX Design Certificate.