Stu Bagby won the New Zealand Poetry Society Competition in 2000, was anthologized in New Poets II (AUP 2002), and published his first full collection As it was in the beginning (Steele Roberts) in 2005. Formerly a grave-digger, he has also worked part-time as a tutor and reviewer. In 2008 he edited and published Just Another Fantastic Anthology: Auckland in Poetry (Antediluvian Press) and edited A Good Handful: Great New Zealand Poems About Sex (AUP).