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Faith Wilson is a Samoan and Pakeha artist and writer from Aotearoa/New Zealand, currently living in Fernie, Canada, on the land of the Ktunaxa people. Through writing poetry, she attempts to understand herself and her world, using personal experiences such as cultural dislocation, self hatred and self love, generational trauma, to anchor the writing in something real, with the hope that there are others who connect to these experiences. She experiments with writing off the page and in different spaces, accompanied my moving or still images, or on gallery walls. She has published in many local and international journals such as Poetry Magazine, Runway, Sport and Ika and completed a residency in Winnipeg, Canada with Chris Kraus in 2017. She has exhibited throughout New Zealand in group and solo shows, most recently at Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, with her exhibition Confessions of a Teenage Afakasi. You can follow her on instagram @up_and_glo.