essa may ranapiri (Ngāti Raukawa | takatāpui; they/them/theirs) is a poet from Kirikiriroa, Aotearoa. They have words in; Mayhem, Brief, Poetry NZ, Sport, Starling, Landfall, Them, & POETRY Magazine. Their first collection of poems RANSACK is due out 2019 with VUP. They hope to outlast the colonial nation state of NZ but will regardless write until they’re dead.
