Erik Kennedy is a poet who lives in Otautahi Christchurch. He co-edited No Other Place to Stand, an anthology of climate change poetry from Aotearoa and the Pacific (Auckland University Press, 2022). His poetry chapbook Twenty-Six Factitions was published with Cold Hub Press in 2017, and his first full collection, There's No Place Like the Internet in Springtime, was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry in 2019; this was followed by his collection Another Beautiful Day Indoors (2022). His latest poetry collection is Sick Power Trip (2025).