JCL Purchase
Writer
JCL Purchase (aka Jenny Purchase) was born and raised in Zambia and educated in South Africa where she spent her early adulthood. In 1998, divorced and seeking a new direction in life, she immigrated to Aotearoa New Zealand with her three children.
She is a senior secondary teacher of English and French by profession but has also taught an eclectic range of subjects in the adult education sector. Since gaining a master’s degree in creative writing, she has published several short stories and worked as a producer on short film projects. She is currently writing a historical novel set in pre-apartheid South Africa and is collecting poetry, prose, and essays for an anthology on solo parenthood. She lives at Marsden Cove on the shores of the Whangārei Harbour with her partner, eleven bookcases, three pianos, a collection of guitars, a dog with googly eyes and two cats who detest each other. She gives thanks daily that her waka washed up on these shores.
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