Bloodclot
By (Author) Tusiata Avia
Te Herenga Waka University Press
Victoria University Press
2nd June 2009
New Zealand
General
Non Fiction
821
80
Nafanua, the Samoan goddess of war leaves the underworld to wander the earth as a half-caste girl from Christchurch. Bloodclot is the astonishing new automythographical book by the author of Wild Dogs Under My Skirt.
Tusiata Avia was born in Christchurch in 1966, of Samoan descent. An acclaimed performance poet, her work has also been published in various literary journals, including Turbine, Sport and Takahe. n 2005 Tusiata was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Creative New Zealand Pacific Writer's Residency at the University of Hawaii.