Episode 136: Ruby Macomber

This week we continue with our special series for the month of May, where we #CelebratePasifikaWomen, and in Episode 136, we are also celebrating #RotumanLanguageWeek. Ruby Macomber is an award-winning poet, essayist, researcher, and creative non-fiction writer, with Rotuman, Taveuni, Ngā Puhi and Scottish roots. She has been published in Landfall, Kate Books, Metro, Awa Waine and Starling, and in 2023 she was named the NZ Young Writers Festival - Young Writer in Residence. Alongside her university studies, she volunteers at the Auckland Commodity Law Centre, and through Youth Arts NZ and Te Kahui, she helps facilitate creative writing workshops, around reflective self-expression for Rangatahii (youth), in vulnerable and under-served community . Tune in to hear Ruby’s ongoing learning as a writer, her journey of self discovery and cultural identity, the importance of representation and the Rotuman writers who have paved the way for young writers like herself, her contribution to COP27, and the importance of her Nan and why everything leads her back to Rotuma. Follow Ruby: • Instagram: https://instagram.com/@rubyrma • CRY SIS #Cop27: https://www.pasifikavoices.com/film/cry-sis/ • Te Kahui: https://www.youtharts.co.nz/projects/te-kahui • Anthology (Katuivei): https://www.masseypress.ac.nz/books/katuivei • Article: https://www.pantograph-punch.com/posts/loose-canons-ruby-macomber • Taiohi Inside by Te Kahui: https://shop.moanafresh.com/products/taiohi-inside-by-te-kahui Follow Rosa: • @readswithrosa on all sm platforms • ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/readswithrosa⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe and follow my Youtube Channel • ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://youtube.com/@readswithrosa⁠⁠⁠