Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen

A ni-Vanuatu poet, storyteller and editor, Rebecca coedited Vanuatu’s first women’s anthology, Sista, Stanap Strong! (THWUP, 2021) and first non-fiction children’s book, Taf Tumas. Her poems and short stories were published in anthologies in Vanuatu, Fiji and Aotearoa, including Sport 47, Voes, Rising Tides, A Game Of Two Halves, Va – Stories by Women of the Moana, and a collaborative poem was featured in an NZ climate change anthology, No Other Place To Stand (AUP, Jul 2022). She participated in the 60^th Brisbane Writers Festival, the 32^nd Medellin Poetry Festival and was one of the Pasifika poets whose poem on climate change featured at COP27. A recent publication is stories in Vanuatu’s second non-fiction children’s book, Taf Tumas! Becoming Vanuatu / Naissance du Vanuatu. Upcoming publications include a short story in a Pacific anthology of children’s fantasy stories and a poem in a global anthology. She is committed to growing literature in Oceania. @BecVanuatu

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