ABOUT JEDIDIAH

Jedidiah Vinzon is a poet, physicist and pianist. He is currently studying physics at the University of Auckland. His current research focuses on detecting transient sources in astronomical images with deep machine learning.

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His poetry can be read in various literary journals and magazines, both online and in print. His poems can be found nationally in Tarot, Circular Publishing, and Symposia Magazine. Internationally, his poems can be read in Eunoia, orangepeel, and Same Face Collective, among many others. He also has forthcoming poems scheduled to be released towards the end of the year.

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His poem 'how great are nuclear bombs?' first published in orangepeel has been nominated for the 2025 Best of the Net Anthology and the 2025 Pushcart Prize. His poem 'monachopsis' won as part of the Seven Days of Poetry Contest held by Vellichor Literary Magazine. His poems have also been featured in various anthologies collected by Fleeting Daze Magazine and the Bibliotheca Anthology.

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He enjoys listening to classical, jazz and K-pop and writing music for choirs and chambers in his free time. His recent choral composition  Bakunawa (The Serpent and the Seven Moons)  celebrates Filipino mythology and culture through song. It has been commended by Compose Aotearoa! in 2024. He also arranges Christian hymns for piano, strings and choirs. A string chamber performed his arrangement of Cares Chorus at the end of Music Camp NZ. Many more musical compositions, both arrangements and original, are forthcoming.