Tina Cartwright Tina Cartwright i(11552299 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 Iceberg Tina Cartwright , 2022 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 5-11 February 2022;
1 Pregnant in Mexico Tina Cartwright , 2017 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Overland , Winter vol. 227 no. 2017; (p. 40-42)

'I suddenly felt nauseous. The classroom’s lime-green tiles washed with afternoon light reminded me of a bathroom. I turned away from my students, grabbing at the windowsill where the dried-up whiteboard markers rested cap to end. The ceiling fan churned; outside, a car horn bellowed, followed by the call, more a lament than a sales pitch, ‘Aguaaaa, aguuuuua’. I sat down and waited for the nausea to pass.

'It was 2011 and I was living in a tiny town in Mexico’s Jalisco state. My plan had been to teach English for a year and then return to New Zealand better prepared to teach secondary Spanish.'  (Introduction)

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