Gina Cole is a Fijian European queer writer living in Tāmaki Makaurau. Her short story collection Black Ice Matter won Best First Book Fiction at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her short fiction, flash fiction, poetry and essays have been widely anthologized and published. Her science fiction fantasy novel Na Viro is a work of Pasifikafuturism.

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