Auckland Writers Festival Schools Programme 2016 Proudly supported by Freemasons Foundation
Tusiata Avia is a leading Pacific poet and performer and the author of the children’s books The Song and Mele and the Fofo. She has travelled the world performing her one woman poetry show Wild Dogs Under My Skirt and is currently teaching creative writing at the Manukau Institute of Technology and publishing her much-awaited new collection Spirit House. Tusiata leads a lively session celebrating poetry and performance.