Gina Cole (Fiction writer) is Fijian, Scottish, and Welsh and lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, New Zealand. She is the author of Black Ice Matter, which won the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book Fiction at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Cole’s work has been widely anthologized and has appeared in numerous publications. She is a barrister & solicitor. She holds a Master of Creative Writing, and a PhD in Creative Writing and is an Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa. Her science fiction fantasy novel Na Viro (Huia Publishers, 2022) is a work of Pasifikafuturism.

Verb Festival 2022 Appearances
Cartographies of the Future: Gina Cole, Sat 5 Nov, 4pm.
The Secret Ordinary, Sat 5 Nov, 7:15pm (LitCrawl).
World Building for Speculative Fiction with Gina Cole, Sun 6 Nov, 12:30pm (workshop).

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