Alice Te Punga Somerville (Te Ātiawa, Taranaki) writes and teaches at the intersections of Indigenous, Pacific, literary and cultural studies. She is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato. Her first book was Once Were Pacific: Maori connections to Oceania (Minnesota 2012) and her current project ‘Writing the new world: Indigenous texts 1900- 1975’ explores published writing by Indigenous people from Aotearoa, Australia, Fiji and Hawai’i. She also writes the occasional poem.