Donna McLeod (Te Āti Awa) lives on papakainga in Motueka but is at Ihumātao on the day of the publication of her poem in The Spinoff. She is a writer and performer of Te Ora Haa and a member of Te Ohu Whakaari. She is published in Headlands: New Stories of Anxiety (VUP, 2018) and Eastbourne: An Anthology (Mākaro Press, 2013).