Tara Leckie (Kāi Tahu, Pākehā) is a short fiction writer from Ōtepoti | Dunedin. She has just completed her Master's in Creative Writing at the IIML, and has published in Turbine 2023. You can find her at linktr.ee/taraleckie and @tazzleckie on Instagram, or digging around in the Pūrākaunui inlet.