Iona Winter

Iona Winter (Waitaha) is the author of three collections, and has recently completed her fourth. She has been widely published and anthologised internationally, and her poetry and hybrid fiction have been performed solo and in collaboration with other multimedia...

Lola Elvy

Lola Elvy is the founding editor of the youth journal fingers comma toes and runs the youth National Flash Fiction Day competition. She writes music, poetry and other forms of creative fiction and nonfiction. In addition to writing, she is passionate about language,...

David Eggleton

David Eggleton is of European, Tongan and Rotuman descent, growing up between Auckland and Fiji. He was the New Zealand Poet Laureate 2019–2022. His first collection of poems, South Pacific Sunrise, was co-winner of the PEN Best First Book of Poetry Award in 1987. His...

Gina Cole

Gina Cole is of Fijian, Scottish, and Welsh descent.  She is the author of Black Ice Matter, which won Best First Book of Fiction at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and the winner of the 2014 Auckland Pride Festival’s creative writing competition for the poem...

Ivy Alvarez

Ivy Alvarez’s latest poetry collection is Diaspora: Volume L (Paloma, 2019). Her other collections include Disturbance (Wales: Seren Books, 2013) and The Everyday English Dictionary (London: Paekakariki Press, 2016). As a MacDowell Fellow and a Hawthornden Fellow, she...