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Art and Comics Editor

Andrew Paul Wood

Andrew Paul Wood is a Timaru-based independent cultural historian and commentator, art writer, book reviewer, essayist, translator and poet. He writes for a number of prominent publications in Aotearoa and Australia. He was the co-editor and translator with Friedrich Voit of the collection Karl Wolfskehl: Drei Welten, Three Worlds (Cold Hub Press 2016), Dunediniad: A Psychogeographical Ode (Kilmog Press 2018) and The Sonnets of Walter Benjamin (Kilmog Press 2020). His latest book is Shadow Worlds: A History of the Occult and Esoteric in New Zealand (Massey University Press 2023).

Fiction and Comics Editor

ZOË MEAGER

Zoë Meager is from Ōtautahi and has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland. She has work published in Cheap Pop, Ellipsis Zine, Granta, Hue and Cry, Landfall, Lost Balloon, Mascara Literary Review, Mayhem, Meniscus, North & South, Overland, Splonk, and Turbine | Kapohau, among others. She also works as the interim takahē Board Co-Chair.

Poetry Editor

ERIK KENNEDY

Erik Kennedy is the author of the chapbook Twenty-Six Factitions (Cold Hub Press, 2017) and the full-length There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (Victoria University Press, 2018), which was shortlisted for best book of poems at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He is co-editing a book of climate change poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific forthcoming from Auckland University Press in 2021. His poems, stories, and criticism have recently been published in places like FENCE, Hobart, Maudlin House, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, the TLS, and Western Humanities Review. Originally from New Jersey, he lives in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Reviews Editor

S J MANNION

Síle is a proud Irish woman/Bean na hEireann, and citizen/tauiwi, of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Published variously and widely, on this side of the world and the other, she reads everything and writes anything; poems and bits and pieces of small fictions, short stories, songs, essays and the odd odd review.

Board Co-Chair

ERICA STRETTON

Erica Stretton has a Master of Creative Writing (First Class Honours) from the University of Auckland. Her short fiction and poetry can be found at Headland, takahē, Mayhem, Flash Frontier, and others. She is a freelance editor and book reviewer.

Graphics Designer

MAURICE LYE

Maurice Lye is a freelance photographer and graphics designer with numerous exhibitions to his name, and is responsible for the layout of artwork in the magazine.

Board Secretary

MELANIE KWANG

Melanie Kwang is a first-generation Taishanese-New Zealand writer from Christchurch. She studied English and Screen Production at the University of Auckland, and completed the Master of Creative Writing there in 2018. Her work has been published in various magazines and anthologies, and performed as play readings with local theatre companies.

Copy Editor

PHILIPPA TUCKER

Philippa Tucker is a Wairarapa-based writer, editor and research assistant. Her writing has been published in Turbine | Kapohau, Blackmail Presstakahē and Flash Frontier, and nominated for Best Microfiction 2023 and Best Small Fictions 2024.

ANNA SCAIFE

Anna Scaife is a graduate of the Masters of Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University, Wellington. Her short fiction has appeared in Landfall, takahē, Turbine | Kapohau, Flash Frontier and At the Bay | I Te Kokoru. Anna lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch, New Zealand.

Competitions Secretary

ANJULA PRAKASH

Anjula Prakash (she/her, they/them) is an Auckland based writer and actor. Her work includes writing for the children’s television show Tales of Nai Nai, as well being published in RNZ. She enjoys writing theatre reviews for Theatre Scenes and looks forward to debuting her first novel – a reality-bending, YA drama set in Auckland. 

Board Member

RICHARD PAMATATAU

Richard Pamatatau is a poet and writer of creative non-fiction that tangles with notions of place, space and identity. He is particularly interested on how place, space and identity play into and support notions of class, particularly for people of Pacific and European or other ethnicities and how they navigate those matters. His Master of Creative Writing sequence was awarded first class honours and its title ‘Wayfindin’ spoke to issues of navigation. In terms of poetic form he exploits traditional poetic structures such as the sestina, villanelle, pantoum and haiku as containers for ideas. His research is engaging with how poets play with space inside their work. Outside of poetry and as a former journalist, Richard is a regular contributor to media on political matters and both the local and national level. He also works in the intercultural and international communication space. 


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