Marama Salsano

Ngāi Tūhoe, Te Aitanga a Māhaki



Marama Salsano is a writer and a painter. She has a Master of Arts in creative writing at the Institution of Modern Letters at Victoria University. In 2011 Salsano was a finalists for Best Short Story written in English in Pikihuia short story competition.

Biographical sources

  • http://www.booksellers.co.nz/book-news/trade-news/pikihuia-short-story-finalists-announced 15 November 2016
  • Huia Short Stories 9. Huia Publishers, 2011.

    Fiction

  • “Seed of Rangiatea.” Huia Short Stories 8: Contemporary Māori Fiction. Wellington: Huia Publishers, 2009. 275-290.
  • “Te aranga mo te marama akuhata: Rise of the august moon.” Turbine 10. Wellington: The International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University, 2010.
  • “The God Gene.” A Foreign Country: New Zealand Speculative Fiction. Wellington: Random Static, 2010. 93-111.
  • "skin." Huia Short Stories 9, Huia Publishers, 2011.
  • "A State of Sleepfulness." Huia Short Stories 9, Huia Publishers, 2011.
  • "Rangatira." Huia Short Stories 10, Huia Publishers, 2013.
  • “Why Lucy Lawless Rules.” Ora Nui Special Edition: A Collection of Māori and Aboriginal Literature. N.Z.: Anton Blank Ltd, 2013. 146-149.
  • Non-fiction

  • “Burning Diamonds.” English in Aotearoa. Issue 78. Wellington: New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, (October 2012): 50-51.
  • “Whakapapa as literary analysis within the NCEA English classroom.” English in Aotearoa. Issue 89. Wellington: New Zealand Association for the Teaching of English, (July 2016): 36-43.
  • Poetry

  • “Salt Green River.” Swamp: An online magazine for postgraduate creative writing. Issue 08. Newcastle: University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, 2010.
  • “The Sweet Stuff.” Ora Nui Special Edition: A Collection of Māori and Aboriginal Literature. N.Z.: Anton Blank Ltd, (2013) 149-150.
  • “Aroha.” Landfall 227. Dunedin: Otago University Press, (May 2014): 76.