Ruby Macomber

Ruby is a poet, researcher and teina of Te Moana-Nui-a Kiwa; a daughter of Rotuma, Taveuni ma Kaikohe. She has been published in Landfall, Pantograph Punch, Kete Books, Metro, Awa Wāhine and Starling, Poetry Snaps Podcast, and is the current New Zealand Young Writers' Festival Writer in Residence.  In 2022, Ruby was awarded a Prime Minister's Scholarship for Latin America to study Indigenous rights and histories in Brazil. Her current obsessions include Pink V, and fry bread dipped in Kokoda.