Tunmise Adebowale

Tunmise Adebowale is a Nigerian-born New Zealander currently studying at the University of Otago. She is the winner of the 2023 Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook Student competition in the Year 13 category, and the 2023 Sargeson Short Story Award for the Secondary Schools Division. Her work has been published in takahē, Pantograph Punch, Turbine-Kapohau, Newsroom, NZ Poetry Shelf and Verb Wellington. She was also featured in Canadian theatre company, Theatrefolk's 2021 collection: BIPOC Voices and Perspectives Monologue. You can find her on Substack: https://oizystunmise.substack.com/