Jo is drawn to writing about things that scare her, so her stories are usually quite dark and brooding. She is working on a novel of Pasifikafuturism. She is currently a Phd candidate in creative writing at Massey University, School of English, researching Indigenous science fiction. She is a past participant in the Auckland Writers Festival, and the Same Same But Different LGBTQI+ Festival. Her work has been published in various publications including takahē, JAAM, Express Magazine, Span, Landfall, Geometry, Black Marks on the White Page, and Home New Writing. She is the author of Black Ice Matter, which won Best First Book of Fiction at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Gina Cole (fiction writer, poet, from Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa) is of Fijian and Kai Valagi descent. “Kaua e mate wheke, mate ururoa.” (Don’t die like the octopus, die like the shark.) I built a writing studio in my garden where I write 4 – 6hrs a day. I butter my bread by writing youth plays for Devonport Drama and doing TV work. My wife is a Methodist Minister and Celtic harp player. When my play Sister Anzac toured to Te Pou Theatre I joined a Te Reo class there and this began my tikanga rua haerenga, bi-cultural journey, culminating in Fairies of Down Under & other Pākeha Fairytales. I was doing night shoots on LOTRs at that time so I think this is where the love of mythology began. NZSA CompleteMS recipients of 2020 Geoff Allen
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