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Vana Manasiadias

Vana Manasiadis is a Greek-New Zealand poet and  translator who has been moving between Aotearoa and Kirihi Greece, and is now living in Tāmaki Makaurau. As co-editor of the Seraph Press Translation Series, she edited and translated from the Greek for Ναυάγια/Καταφύγια: Shipwrecks/Shelters: Six Contemporary Greek Poets, and co-edited, with Maraea Rakuraku, Tātai Whetū: Seven Māori Women Poets in Translation. Her most recent book of poetry or not-poetry is The Grief Almanac: A Sequel, 2019. More about this and other projects can be found at vana-manasiadis.com