Grace Taylor (poet)
Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor | |
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Born | c. 1984 South Auckland |
Language | English |
Nationality | New Zealander |
Alma mater | Auckland University of Technology |
Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor (born c.1984) is a New Zealand poet and performer.
Taylor is of English and Samoan heritage.[1] She was born in about 1984 in South Auckland and refers to herself as "Afakasi" which is a 1930s Samoan word for someone of mixed heritage.[2] She has an MA in Youth Development from Auckland University of Technology.[3]
In 2013 Taylor published her first collection of poetry, Afakasi Speaks.[4] She has been published in literary journals including Hawai'i Review.[1] Taylor wrote and performed the play My Own Darling, which has been performed in South Auckland and broadcast on Radio New Zealand.[5]
Taylor has worked producing, mentoring and facilitating workshops and spoken word poetry programmes since 2007.[6] She co-founded the South Auckland Poets Collective in 2008 and Niu Navigations in 2013 with Daren Kamali. In 2011 she co-founded the Rising Voices Youth Poetry Slam which is now an annual event in Auckland.[1]
Taylor currently teaches creative writing and poetry at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[7]
Awards
In 2014 Taylor received the Emerging Artist award at the Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards.[8]
Taylor received the 2016 Auckland Mayoral Writers Grant to develop her new collection of poetry, City of Undone Darlings.[6]
In 2008 Taylor won the Auckland Writers Festival Poetry Idol award and received the 2012 Vodafone New Zealand Foundation World of Difference award.[1][3]
References
- ^ a b c d "Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ Dann, Jennifer (19 October 2015). "Twelve Questions: Grace Taylor". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
- ^ a b "Grace Teuila Taylor". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Taylor, Grace (2013). Afakasi Speaks. Hawaii: Ala Press. ISBN 9781492876069.
- ^ "My Own Darling by Grace Taylor from Major Plays". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ a b "Auckland Mayoral Writers Grant 2016". Michael King Writers Centre. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ "Grace Taylor". Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
- ^ "Arts Pasifika Awards". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 10 December 2017.