Bee Trudgeon (aka Grace Beaster)

Pronouns: She/her

Region: Wellington

Email: beetrudgeon@hotmail.com

Arts practice:

• writer
• poet
• storyteller
• musician

Links: Patreon of Bee's alter ego, Grace Beaster

Bee Trudgeon is a writer, rocker, stroller, strummer, mama, storyteller, children's librarian, and perpetual student.Her journalism has been published in Capital Times, RipItUp, The Sapling, NZ Poetry Shelf, The Spinoff, Muzic.NZ and AudioCulture Iwi Waiata; and her poetry in NZ Poetry Box, NZ Poetry Shelf, a fine line, Tarot, and the NZ Poetry Society 2024 and 2025 anthologies. She was the recipient of the 2024 Story Inc. Poetry Prize. She is a frequent Crip the Lit collaborator and has performed with them at several Verb Readers and Writers Festivals.

She calls a haunted house in Cannons Creek home and likes her music loud. You can read more of her work on the Patreon page of her alter ego, Grace Beaster, where she has been posting a poem a week year-round for over a decade.

Working with me:

My preferred method of contact is via email.

Examples of Bee's writing:

• Poetry Box interviews: Te Parito Kōwhai Russley School interviews
• Poetry Shelf Occasional Poems: Bee Trudgeon’s Comforter
• Story Inc 2024 Poetry Prize

Bee's work also appears in:

• New Zealand Poetry Society Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa magazine A Fine Line, Winter 2025, page 31
• New Zealand Poetry Society Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa magazine A Fine Line, Winter 2023, page 24
• New Zealand Poetry Society Te Rōpū Toikupu o Aotearoa magazine A Fine Line, Autumn 2023, page 25
• Tarot Poetry Journal, issue 11, page 23