Grace Iwashita-Taylor

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Grace Iwashita-Taylor, breathing bloodlines of Samoa, England and Japan. She is an artist of upu/words on the page, digital storytelling, and live performance, and is dedicated to carving, elevating, and holding spaces for storytellers of Te Moana nui a Kiwa. Recipient of the CNZ Emerging Pacific Artist 2014 and the Auckland Mayoral Writers Grant 2016, highlights of her work include holding the visiting international writer in residence at the University of Hawaii 2018, being a co-founder of the first youth poetry slam in Aotearoa, Rising Voices (2011–2016), and the South Auckland Poets Collective. She has published two collections Afakasi Speaks (2013) and Full Broken Bloom (2017) with ala press, and is the writer of My Own Darling commissioned by Auckland Theatre Company (2015, 2017, 2019), and Curator of UPU (Auckland Arts Festival 2020 & Kia Mau Festival 2021). She is co-director of Flying Fetu alongside Dr Lana Lopesi, dedicated to building abundant futures for Moana artists of upu/word. Grace is currently working on her next body of work ‘Water Memories’.

Auckland University Press

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Grace Iwashita-Taylor

Grace Iwashita-Taylor

Rapture: An Anthology of Performance Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand