Gillian Leasunia Katoanga is an Aotearoa-born writer of Sāmoan, Tongan and Rotuman descent. Her creative writing and academic research are rooted in her cultural heritage. She is completing an honours degree in Biomedical Sciences at St John’s University in New York, after which she plans to return to Sāmoa to continue research on indigeneity. Her research on racial disparities in healthcare has been published, with another paper forthcoming.
