Jeni Curtis teaches English at St Andrew’s College, Christchurch, New Zealand. She has a keen interest in Victorian literature and history. She is President of the Christchurch branch of the Dickens Fellowship, and editor of their magazine, Dickens Down Under. She has published poems in the Christchurch Press, Blackmail and International Literature Quarterly, as well as having a poem featured on Helen Lowe’s Tuesday poem blog, October 31, 2012.