ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marama Salsano (Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Wairere) is a writer-scholar, editor, ringatoi, and multidisciplinary artist-activist. As a PhD candidate at the IIML, Marama works within the broad field of Māori and Indigenous Literary Studies and has an MA in creative writing and an MA in Tikanga Māori / Māori Cultural Studies. The weaving of Marama‘s critical and creative writing has been published in various anthologies such as An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific or journals such as Waka Kuaka: The Journal of the Polynesian Society, and her recent poetry has been published as mini bisexual scratchcard poems in the UK, or online in the Journal of Global Indigeneity and at www.badapple.gay