Our judge 2025

Ruby Solly

Ruby Solly is a poet who hails from Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, and Kāti Māmoe. She has two books of poetry under THWUP, ‘Tōku Pāpā’ (2020) and ‘The Artist’ (2023). She has had poetry published in Aotearoa, America, Australia, and Antarctica. She also works as a taonga pūoro practitioner, composer and musician, and as a result has had her poems used for opera, popular music, jazz, and other genres. She is currently working on turning her PhD into a poem novel, in order to help whānau to access mātauranga on the use of taonga pūoro within hauora; health and healing.

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