Maisie is a Waihōpai/Invercargill born, Pōneke/Wellington based artist-poet-teacher. Since 2014 Maisie has been teaching at Tai Tamariki Kindergarten located within Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand’s national museum.

Co-editor and production manager of art/poetry zine Salty, Maisie also has work published by Oscen, Sweet Mammalian, A Fine Line magazine, Chaleur Magazine, Flash Frontier, Overcommunicate, Anthropozine, Catalyst Literary Arts Journal, the International Art in Early Childhood Research Journal and ecARTnz.

Maisie uses mahi toi to process notions of identity, and her experiences of love and grief within and without of the confines of being a person with a disability. Maisie has a solo exhibition coming up in October 2020 at Space Studio & Gallery in Whanganui, New Zealand, and another in July 2021 at Toi Pōneke Gallery in Wellington, exploring the use of art as therapy for trauma.

Instagram: @moomologist

Verb Festival 2020 appearances:
2pm, Nov 7: Vulnerability, fluorescent islands and resilient teabags