The NZ Young Writers Festival is thrilled to announce their 2024 Guest Curator!

Posted: Thursday Jul 04, 2024

Ruby Macomber will lead the festival’s creative vision in collaboration with staff.

Ruby Macomber was the 2023 Robert Lord Writers Cottage Young Writer in Residence, and was a Starling Micro-Resident in 2022.

Ruby is a fierce fry-bread-loving daughter of Te Moana-Nui-a Kiwa (Rotuma, Taveuni, Ngāpuhi). They work as a freelance poet, essayist and researcher and are blessed to co-manage Te Kāhui, a rōpū facilitating equitable arts opportunities in Corrections and communities. As part of her NZYWF residency in 2023, Ruby wrote on topics of diaspora, Indigeneity, abolition, sexuality and Rotuman hanuju. Her mahi can be found in Landfall, Metro, Waka Kuaka, The Pantograph Punch, The Spinoff, Starling, Awa Wāhine, and Mana Moana: Pasifika Voices 2023. She features in recently released anthologies, Rapture, Katūīvei, Everything That Moves, Moves Through Another, and co-edited Taiohi Inside, an anthology of creative writing from Mount Eden Correctional Facility.