Karen Zelas
Karen Zelas lives in quake-struck Christchurch. A former psychiatrist and psychotherapist, she returned to university, taking creative writing papers at Canterbury University in preparation for giving up her day job.
Country of Origin
Minnie Dean: the first – and only – woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Baby farmer and child murderer, or hardworking wife and mother, supporting her family by caring for unwanted children in a society that shunned her?
Karen Zelas explores the trials of Minnie Dean using a myriad of voices, including Dean’s own, from her childhood in Scotland to the gallows in Invercargill, 1895.
Review | The Trials of Minnie Dean : a verse biography, Karen Zelas | Karen Chisholm
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Blog | #amreading The Trials of Minnie Dean : a verse biography, Karen Zelas | Karen Chisholm
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