Michaela Keeble

Michaela Keeble is a white Australian writer living in Aotearoa with her partner and children.

Her chapbook intertidal about change underway in our oceans was published in early 2020 and she has a children's book, co-authored with her son Kerehi Grace and illustrated by Tokerau Brown, forthcoming from Gecko Press in 2022. Watch out for Paku Manu Ariki Whakatakapōkai!

Michaela's anticolonial poetry has been published and anthologised widely, including in Intimate Relations: Communicating in the Anthropocene (Lexington Press, 2021), No Other Place to Stand (AUP, 2022) and Not Very Quiet (Recent Work Press, 2021). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Pantograph Punch, Capital, The Spinoff, Newsroom, Cordite, Plumwood, Westerly and elsewhere.

Michaela is a guest poet at the 2022 Brisbane Writers Festival. Find out more at her writer's website: www.michaelakeeble.com.

i'm committed to undermining whiteness and the colonial project with every word.

Read more

• Dare Devil | Action, Spectacle (February 2022)
• The Flying Rats | Newsroom (June 2021)
• Good intentions are not enough: Pākehā writing on Māori | Newsroom (December 2020)
• Waiariki | Pantograph Punch (October 2019)