ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Simone Kaho attended the IIML MA in Creative Writing over 2010. She considers the performance of poetry on stage to be as important as its publication on the page and has been invigorated and inspired by watching and performing at the ‘Poetry Live’ open mic in Auckland since 2007. Simone performed at the 2010 Side Stream Poetry Brothel, with Hinemoana Baker at the launch of her second book, Koiwi Koiwi, at the opening of the Aotea Square in Auckland, at Poetry at Our Edge of the Universe, a poetry/music/music event for National Poetry Day 2010, and at Poetry Pick’n’Mix, alongside her classmates.