PACIFIC - Vanuatu
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 60th Brisbane Writers Festival, the 32nd 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