nSelina Tusitala Marshme (ONZM, FRSNZ), is the 2017-2019 NZ Poet Laureate, the 2016 Commonwealth Poet, and has written three acclaimed books of poetry. She is also the author of Mophead, winner of the 2020 Margaret Mahy Supreme Book Award. Mophead TU: The Queen’s Poem is out this November. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Auckland.