Mikaela Nyman

Mikaela Nyman
Born1966 (age 57–58)
Åland, Finland
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • poet
  • journalist
Language
  • English
  • Swedish
Alma materVictoria University of Wellington (PhD, 2020)
Children3
Academic background
Thesis'Sado' – A novel and Expressions of creativity and rhetorical allience: Ni-Vanuatu women's voices (2020)
Doctoral advisor

Mikaela Nyman (born 1966) is a Finnish-New Zealand novelist, poet, journalist and editor. After an early career in journalism and non-fiction work, she published her first poetry collection (in Swedish) in 2019 and her first novel (in English) in 2020. The former resulted in her being nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize. Her work has been published in various anthologies and journals, and she was the co-editor of the first anthology of Vanuatu women's writing.