Melissa Oliver (Ngāti Porou) is from Te Matau-a-Māui but now lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara where she works at Unity Books. You can find her work in Starling Issues 12 & 14.

Verb Readers & Writers Festival 2022 appearance:
Starling: A New Kind of Animal (LitCrawl), Saturday 5 Nov, 8.30pm, Bartley & Company Art, 2/22 Garret St.