Jenna

Manager

New Zealand’s Young Bookseller of the Year 2015!
Kobo Booksellers NZ Winter Institute Scholarship 2014
(Seattle).
RISE Booksellers Exchange Scholarship 2024 (UK)

Jenna (Kai Tahu) hails from Ōtepoti and has been at Time Out since 2010. She manages the store alongside working as a freelance photographer.

Jenna has been Chair of Booksellers NZ and representative on the NZ Book Awards Trust. She was a fiction judge for the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards and reviews books monthly on RNZ’s Nine to Noon and fortnightly on 95bFM’s breakfast show and presented on the now retired book podcast Papercuts, on The Spinoff.