Selina Tusitala Marsh

Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh is an Auckland-based Pacific poet and scholar of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent.

Her work has been widely published and has appeared in a range of online and hardcopy literary journals and anthologies including Blackmail Press, Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English, Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poetry in English–Whetu Moana II (Auckland University Press/UHP), Best New Zealand Poems 2006, Niu Voices: Contemporary Pacific Fiction 1 and The Contemporary Pacific (UHP).

Selina established and coordinates Pasifika Poetry, an online hub celebrating the poetry of tagata o te moana nui, the peoples of the Pacific. Visit Pasifika Poetry.

She is also the co-director for the CENTRE OF ARTS AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION at The University of Auckland.

Other research interests include global indigenous literatures and performance, and Selina has performed her poetry at a range of venues and festivals. Selina is also a graduate of the 2010 Leadership New Zealand Programme.

Selina’s latest achievement includes the publication of her first book of collected poems, Fast Talking PI, which was awarded the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry 2010.