Professional Affiliations

Editorial Board Member: AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples (2025-present)

Executive Member: Australian Association of Pacific Studies (2025-present)

Committee Member: Te Hā o Ngā Pou Kaituhi Māori/National Māori Writers Committee (2025-present)

Peer Reviewer: Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, MAI journal, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Journal of Global Indigeneity (2023-present)

Recent Contributions  

Books

2024: To Feel the Earth as One’s Skin: An Anthology of Indigenous Visual Poetry. Coedited by Lara Felsing, Marama Salsano & Astra Papachristodoulou, Poem Atlas, UK.

Peer-reviewed Articles

2025: “My body is the universe!”: Expansive fat presence in contemporary Indigenous literature. Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society, 1-9.

2024: A letter to future iwi and Indigenous literary scholars. Journal of New Zealand Literature, 39, pp. 26-40.

2024: Re-weaving Te-Moana-nui-a-Kiwa: Wāhine Māori bodies in short fiction. Literature Compass Special Issue: Global visions from Oceania, edited by Bonnie Etherington & Tina Makereti, pp. 1-16.

2024: Cyberspace is an island in Oceania: A close reading of Te Kuharere Tapes by @tekahureremoa. An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific, edited by Cristina Bacchilega, ku’ualoha ho’omanawanui & Joyce Pualani Warren, University of Hawai’i Press, pp. 270-279.

2024: Salsano, M., & Taito, M. HAERENGA/SAL FẠIVA: Two Indigenous Women and Their Creative Practice Doctoral Journeys. Waka Kuaka | Journal of the Polynesian Society, SPECIAL ISSUE: in a room, in a house, on an island, in an ocean, edited by Andrea Low & Marcia Leenen-Young, The Polynesian Society (Inc.), vol. 133, pp. 77-95.

Conferences

2025: Salsano, M., & Berghan, J. (2025, December 10). Lines of return: Using poetry to explore Māori relationships with the built environment [Conference presentation]. State of Australasian Cities Conference (SOAC 2025), QUT Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. 

2025: Iti-Prendergast, S., Salsano, M., Apiata, H. & Nisa-Waller, A. (2025, November 27). Unruly Native Collaborations: Māori History in Practice [Conference roundtable]. New Zealand Historical Association Conference: He Rau Ringa e Oti ai, University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand. 

2025: “The future is f(ph)at”: Representational justice by reading Indigenous fatness in literature. Australian Association for Pacific Studies Conference, University of Sydney, Australia.

2024: Healing Indigenous bodies through poetry, art and play. Convenor: Marama Salsano. Panellists: Marama Salsano, Ammon Hāwea Apiata, Julz Nonoa & Kiri Leach (Hau Tūtū Aotearoa), Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA2024) Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

2024: An Ocean of Wonder: Sustaining Indigenous Pacific Traditions and Communities into the Future. Chair: Cristina Bacchilega. Forum Panellists: Caryn Lesuma, Marama Salsano, Lehua Parker, Māhealani Ahia. Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, Albuquerque Convention Center, New Mexico.

2023: Critical Māhaki intellectual histories. New Zealand Historical Association Conference, University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

2023: “Reweaving our universe”: A series of waiata aroha to my kuia, Hinetapuārau. Association for Social Anthropology in Oceania Annual Meeting, Kona, Hawai’i.

Residencies

2026: Deep Winter Writers’ Residency, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity at Banff, Canada

2026: Weaving Winter Writers Residency through Arizona State University’s Center for Imagination in the Borderlands and the University of Oregon, Eugene, United States of America

2023: Aknumustiǂis: Ecological Engagement Through the Seasons Residency, Indigenous Visual Arts programme, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada

Poetry

2026: A whakapapa of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki wāhine. Kupu Toi Takataapui: Takataapui Literary Journal, issue 2. kuputoitakataapui.com

2026: Eternity is a takataapui love poem. In, He Wa Uenuku Queer Horologies Exhibition Zine, edited by Dr Cassandra Barnett.

2025: Calabashes in my mouth. Huia short stories 16, 135-136. Huia Publishers. 

2025: Bones (beyond Hood Street). Rat World: A Magazine for the Underground, Issue 8, 26.

2025: How to write a conference paper. Australian Association for Pacific Studies Newsletter: June, p. 9.

2025: Kōhatu. Quick Brown Dog: The Journal of Hagley Writers’ Institute, Issue 7, p. 99.

2024: Night conversations at the urupā (a pocketful of pouhine). Turbine / Kapohau.

2024: Clothing Care Labels; Stories. Yellow Medicine Review: Fall 2024, pp. 172-174.

2024: this tauiwi house. Journal of Global Indigeneity.

2024: ko au tēnei. An Ocean of Wonder: The Fantastic in the Pacific, edited by Cristina Bacchilega, Ku’ualoha Ho’omanawanui & Joyce Pualani Warren, University of Hawai’i Press, p. 269.

2024: Māhaki blood. https://badapple.gay/2024/08/23/mahaki-blood/

2024: Mini Bisexual Poems [series of 4 scratch card poems]. Poem Atlas.

2024: Māori Clay People Poems. [series of 4 scratch card poems]. Poem Atlas.

2024: Papachristodoulou, A., Salsano, M., & Felsing, L. Mini Poems about the Elements. [collaborative scratch card poems]. Poem Atlas.

2023: wa/ hi / ne. Waka Kuaka | Journal of the Polynesian Society, The Polynesian Society, pp. 80-83.

Zines

2026: Salsano, M., & Apiata, H. Māori Zine Making [zine made for the WHAIAO exhibition].

2026: Salsano, M., & Apiata, H. He kupu kaiora: A handful of hexes [bilingual English/Māori zine].

2025: How Blood Works. Winner: Best Long Form Zine, Kirikiriroa/Hamilton Zine Fest.

2024: Wāhine. Winner: Best Political Zine, Kirikiriroa/Hamilton Zine Fest.

2023: Haumi: A limited-edition e-zine of Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki writing, edited by Marama Salsano & Tara McAllister.

Selected Events

2026: Mateship, Moan[a]ing & Menopause: An evening of poetry with Alice Te Punga Somerville, Hinemoana Baker, Marama Salsano and Tusiata Avia. Meow, Wellington, 31 July 2027.

2026: Apiata, H., Barnett, C. Clunie, S., Salsano, M. & Solomon, N. Poetic Expressions of Whakapapa [curated by M. Salsano]. Hamilton Literature Festival, Hamilton Arts Festival, 22 February 2026.

2026: Salsano, M., & Apiata, H. WHAIAO presents: The Art of Māori Zine-Making, Tūranga Christchurch City Library, Christchurch, 28 August 2026.

2026: Apiata, H.., & Salsano, M. Zine workshop. Samoa House Library, Auckland, 7 March 2026.

2026: The Search for Meaning: Marama Salsano in waananga with Dr Hinemoa Elder about the intersection between culture, creativity and mental health. Hamilton Literature Festival, Hamilton Arts Festival, 21 February 2026.

2025: Sweets to the Sweet [storytelling event]. HamLit. Hamilton Arts Festival.

2024: Stars of Hood Street [fiction reading]. Pikihuia Showcase. Māori Literature Trust.