Ruby Appleby is an Auckland high school student who writes poetry and prose when she’s supposed to be studying. This is a terrible habit, but since this has gotten her published in Starling’s upcoming sixteenth issue and Volume 3 of the Auroras & Blossoms Haiku Anthology, she is unlikely to change her ways.
Star Gossage
Star Gossage (Ngāti Wai / Ngāti Ruanui) lives and works, surrounded by whanau, on ancestral land at Pakiri, north of...