Jackie Ballantyne

Jackie Ballantyne has worked as a copywriter in advertising in Australia but now lives in Dunedin, writing and teaching Marketing Communication part time at both the University of Otago and Otago Polytechnic. She received high distinction for a writing and editing course in Australia, had a short story shortlisted for the Judah Waten Prize in Australia and won second prize for a story from the Middlesex University Press Literary Prize.