Grace Taylor (poet)

Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor
Born c. 1984
South Auckland
Language English
Nationality New Zealander
Alma mater Auckland University of Technology

Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor (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.[3][1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Dann, Jennifer (2015-10-19). "Twelve Questions: Grace Taylor". NZ Herald. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
  3. 1 2 "Grace Teuila Taylor". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  4. ↑ Taylor, Grace (2013). Afakasi Speaks. Hawaii: Ala Press. ISBN 9781492876069.
  5. ↑ "My Own Darling by Grace Taylor from Major Plays". Radio New Zealand. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  6. 1 2 "Auckland Mayoral Writers Grant 2016". Michael King Writers Centre. 12 May 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  7. ↑ "Grace Taylor". Department of English, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Arts Pasifika Awards". Creative New Zealand. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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