Selina Tusitala Marsh

Selina Tusitala Marsh (ONZM, FRSNZ) is the former New Zealand Poet Laureate and an acclaimed performer and author. In 2019 she was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to poetry, literature and the Pacific community and was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand. An Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Auckland, Selina teaches Creative Writing and Pacific Literature. Selina’s area of research focuses on hearing silenced or marginalised indigenous poetic voices. She has performed poetry for primary schoolers and presidents (Obama), queers and Queens (HRH Elizabeth II). She has published three critically acclaimed collections of poetry, Fast Talking PI (2009), Dark Sparring (2013), Tightrope (2017) and a graphic memoir, Mophead (2019).

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