Ruby Macomber is uri of the shores of Itu'ti'u, the flowers of Taveuni and the mighty tentacles of Te Pū o Te Wheke. A poet, youth development practitioner, and community organiser, Ruby is the former curator of both the New Zealand Young Writers’ Festival and STREETSIDE for the Auckland Writers’ Festival. Since 2020, she has facilitated group creative writing programmes in prisons across New Zealand—co-editing collections Taiohi Inside (2023) and Wāhine Inside (2025). My Moana Girls (2024) is her debut chapbook, published by ngā pukapuka pekapeka. Her work features in journals and anthologies across Aotearoa, with a primary critical and creative focus on anti-carceral indigenous feminism. She is a Tin House 2026 Winter Workshop Scholar.