A ni-Vanuatu poet, storyteller, and editor, Rebecca co-edited 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, and Va – Stories by Women of the Moana. She participated in the 60th Brisbane Writers Festival and 32nd Medellin Poetry Festival. A recent publication is a collab. poem in the NZ climate change anthology No Other Place To Stand (AUP, Jul 2022). Upcoming publications include stories in a Pacific children’s fantasy anthology and a Vanuatu children’s book. She is committed to growing literature in Oceania.
Rebecca Tobo Olul-Hossen
