Pacific Islands

Sandra Simpson is the author of breath (2011), a collection of haiku. Her poetry appears in many anthologies and journals, including Poetry & Place Anthology 2015 and Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years...

Jessie Puru is a Māori poet and mother from Auckland. She is currently the intern editor for New Zealand Poetry Society’s a fine line.

Anna Jackson lives in Island Bay, Wellington. Her most recent collection is Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems (Auckland University Press, 2018).

Anne Kennedy is an award-winning poet, novelist, and screenwriter. She attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2017.

Erik Kennedy is the author of the chapbook Twenty-Six Factitions (Cold Hub Press, 2017) and the full-length collection There's No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (Victoria University Press, 2018).

Michele Leggott’s latest poetry collection, Vanishing Points, was published by Auckland University Press in 2017.

Therese Lloyd is the author of The Facts (2018) and Other Animals (2013), both published by Victoria University Press.

Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia/Rangitāne ō Wairau/Ngāti Rārua/Ngāti Takihiku) is a Dunedin-based writer. Her first collection of poetry is forthcoming from Kilmog Press.

Gregory O’Brien’s newest poetry books are Whale Years (Auckland University Press, 2015) and Citizen of Santiago (Trapeze, 2013).

Vincent O’Sullivan lives in Dunedin and is a novelist, short story writer, biographer, playwright, and poet. He was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2013–2015.

Nina Powles is a writer and zinemaker. She is half Malaysian-Chinese. Her debut poetry collection, Luminescent, was published by Seraph Press in 2017.

Essa Ranapiri | takatāpui kaituhi | they-them-theirs | has words in Mayhem, Poetry New Zealand, Brief, Starling, and THEM.

Kerrin P. Sharpe has published three collections of poetry with Victoria University Press, most recently Rabbit Rabbit (2016). Her fourth collection, louder, will be published this year.

C.K. Stead was New Zealand Poet Laureate 2015–2017. His novel, The Necessary Angel, was released in 2017 by Allen & Unwin. His Collected Poems was published by Auckland University Press in 2008.

Tayi Tibble (Te Whanau a Apanui, Ngati Porou) is an Indigenous writer from Aotearoa. She is the author of two poetry collections, Rangikura (2024) and Poūkahangatus (2022), both published by Knopf.

Steven Toussaint is the author of The Bellfounder (The Cultural Society, 2015) and Fiddlehead (Compound Press, 2014).

Chris Tse is the author of two collections, both published by Auckland University Press: He’s So MASC (2018) and How to Be Dead in a Year of Snakes (2014).

Tim Upperton’s two poetry books are The Night We Ate the Baby (Haunui Press, 2014) and A House On Fire (Steele Roberts, 2009).

Faith Wilson is a Samoan/Palagi artist and writer from Aotearoa/New Zealand, currently based in Fernie, BC, Canada.

Ashleigh Young is a poet and essayist who lives in Wellington.