Selina Tusitala Marsh

Selina Tusitala Marsh is Associate Professor of English and Pacific Literature at the University of Auckland. She is of Samoan, Tuvaluan, English, Scottish and French descent. Her first collection of poems, Fast Talking PI (Auckland University Press, 2009) won the 2010 NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry. Selina was the Commonwealth Poet for 2016 and performed her poem 'Unity' for the Queen at Westminster Abbey.

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Selina Tusitala Marsh at DWRF 2017
Tala Tusi: The Teller is the Tale

Image: Emma Hughes