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Serie Barford is a performance poet from Auckland, Aotearoa (New Zealand).[1][2]

Her poetry collection, Tapa Talk, was published in 2007[3] to critical acclaim.[4][5] She has published four other books of poetry (in 1985, 1989, 2015,[6] and 2021[7]). Her poems and short stories have been published in journals and anthologies, among them Mauri Ola,[8] Whetu Moana, Niu Voices, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand, Dreadlocks, Writing the Pacific, Trout, Blackmail Press, Snorkel and Best New Zealand Poems.[1] Sleeping with Stones was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[9]

She has Samoan, European and Algonquin Indian ancestry.[4]

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