Talia Marshall ( Ngāti Kuia/ Rangitāne o Wairau/ Ngāti Rārua/ Ngāti Takihiku), [1] born 1978, [2] is a New Zealand writer of Māori descent who writes essays, poetry and short stories. She lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin.
Marshall affiliates to the Māori nations of Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Rārua and Ngāti Takihiku. [1] She lives in Ōtepoti Dunedin. [1]
Marshall has written stories, essays, and poems for Takahē, The Spinoff, Pantograph Punch, [3] in North & South magazine, and the Otago Daily Times. [4] [5] Marshall has also written multiple in memoriam poems for Newsroom. [6] [7] Emma Espiner described her as "one of [New Zealand's] greatest essayists". [8]
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. [9] Professor Damien Wilkins described her as having an "astonishing voice". [9] In 2021 she won the Surrey-Hotel writers residency [10] and appeared in the VERB Festival in Wellington, [11] writing for the series Art History is a Mother. [12] She has run guest workshops for Prospect Park Productions. [13] In 2023 she ran a successful crowdfunding campaign for travel costs to help her complete a manuscript for Te Herenga Waka University Press. [14] Her work has been published in the anthology Tell You What (Great New Zealand Nonfiction 2017). [15]
Previously she worked as a caregiver in a rest home. [16]