Ruby is a poet, researcher and teina of Te Moana-Nui-a Kiwa; a daughter of Rotuma, Taveuni ma Kaikohe. She has been published in Landfall, Kete Books, Metro, Awa Wāhine and Starling, and featured in Poetry Snaps Podcast and Auckland Museum online. In 2022, Ruby was awarded a Prime Minister's Scholarship for Latin America to study indigenous rights and histories in Brazil. Her current obsessions include Pink V, and fried bread dipped in Kokoda.
Ruby Macomber traces the whakapapa of activism and Moana sisterhoods at Moana Fresh, the iconic community marketplace in Avondale.
Loose Canons is a series in which we invite artists we love to share five things that have informed their work. Ruby Macomber, poet, researcher and teina of Te Moana-Nui-a Kiwa; shares her favourite things.
In partnership with All My Friends, we have invited four writers to reflect on the themes, locations and stories explored in the video series Niu Gold Mountain. First off, Ruby Macomber responds to the music video Movin’, by Gwen Lin, Tyrun Posimani and Yin-Chi Lee, set in Lim Chhour Foodcourt.