Mere Taito

Mere Taito, a Rotuman Islander from Rotuma, Fiji, moved to New Zealand in 2007. She is the author of the poetry collection The Light and Dark in our Stuff (2017), and her work has appeared in Landfall, A Fine Line and So Many Islands: Stories from the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian and Pacific Oceans. Mere lives in Hamilton with her partner Neil and nephew Lapuke.