Liana ashenden

Liana Ashenden is a writer and artist living in the ancient volcanoes of Te Pātaka-o-Rākaihautū / Banks Peninsula.

With a PhD in English Literature and a BSC in Physiology, her writing blends the esoteric, scientific, and domestic. Liana graduated from Hagley Writers Institute in 2023 and writes flash fiction and creative nonfiction.

As an expressionist artist, Liana uses watercolour, acrylic, charcoal, and clay to explore the fragility, humour and lyricism of ordinary life. 

You can find her work in journals such as At The Bay I Te Kokoru, Flash Frontier, and Flash Frog, at Rei Gallery in Lyttelton, and on Instagram @swampmoa.