Ria Masae

Ria Masae is a writer, poet, and spoken word artist of Samoan descent, born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau (the native Māori name for Auckland) in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Her work has been published in various Aotearoa literary outlets and theatre productions, including the country’s foremost and longest-running journal, Landfall, and Best New Zealand Poems (2017 and 2020). Ria also has poetry published on the Mexican poetry website, Circulo de Poesía. In 2020 a collection of her poems, titled, 'What she Sees From Atop the Mauga', was one of three collections chosen for publication by Auckland University Press’, AUP New Poets 7.