Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia/Rangitāne o Wairau/Ngāti Rārua/Ngāti Takihiku), born 1978, is a New Zealand writer of Māori descent who writes essays, poetry and short stories. She lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Biography
Marshall affiliates to the Māori nations of Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Takihiku. She lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Marshall has written stories, essays, and poems for Takahē, The Spinoff, Pantograph Punch, in North & South magazine, and the Otago Daily Times. Marshall has also written multiple in memoriam poems for Newsroom. Emma Espiner described her as "one of greatest essayists".
In 2020 Marshall was announced as the inaugural Emerging Māori Writer in Residence for the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML), Victoria University of Wellington. Professor Damien Wilkins described her as having an "astonishing voice". In 2021 she won the Surrey-Hotel writers residency and appeared in the VERB Festival in Wellington, writing for the series Art History is a Mother. She has run guest workshops for Prospect Park Productions. In 2023 she ran a successful crowdfunding campaign for travel costs to help her complete a manuscript for Te Herenga Waka University Press. Her work has been published in the anthology Tell You What (Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017).
Personal life
Previously she worked as a caregiver in a rest home.
Further reading
- The Queen of Swords (Newsroom, 2023), short story
- You'll Never Fly Alone (Newsroom, 2022), essay
- My Lucky, Unlucky Book (City Gallery Wellington), essay
- A View from the Gorge (Otago Daily Times, 2022), essay
- Not Just Any Port (Otago Daily Times, 2022), 'in suburbia' essay
- Please take the rope from my throat so that I may sing (Pantograph Punch, 2017), essay
- On the Marae (The Spinoff, 2016), essay
- Being Active (Best New Zealand Poems)
- Laughter makes the river rise better than her rain (Best New Zealand Poems)
- Selected poems (Turbine Kapohau, 2005), poems
References
- ^ "Talia Marshall 2020 – ŌRONGOHAU | BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMS". Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- Marshall, Talia (2016-11-09). "Talia Marshall". The Spinoff. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- "Talia Marshall". Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- "In suburbia". Otago Daily Times. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- "Dreaming of Ravensbourne". Otago Daily Times. 2022-03-07. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- "Talia on Sinéad, and other deaths". Newsroom. 2023-08-30. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- "You'll never fly alone, by Talia Marshall". Newsroom. 2022-11-14. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- Espiner, Emma (2023-05-09). There's a Cure for This: A Memoir. Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. ISBN 978-0-14-377686-4.
- ^ "Talia Marshall named as first Emerging Māori Writer in Residence". creativenz.govt.nz. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- "Talia Marshall wins Surrey Hotel writers residency". Newsroom. 2021-07-14. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- "Talia Marshall". Verb Wellington. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- "My Lucky, Unlucky Book by Talia Marshall". Verb Wellington. Retrieved 2023-09-12.
- "Guest Workshop Series". Prospect Park Productions. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- "The Queen of Kō". The Queen of Kō. Retrieved 2023-09-10.
- Andrew, Susanna (2016-11-07). Tell You What: Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017. Auckland University Press. ISBN 978-1-77558-903-7.
- "Dunedin poet and writer Talia Marshall". RNZ. 2017-01-28. Retrieved 2023-09-10.