Karin Speedy is a Wellington-based researcher, writer, editor and academic. She grew up in South Auckland before moving to Paris and then Sydney, where she spent 13 years. Her research focuses on historical, cultural, linguistic and literary links between the French and English-speaking Pacific (including Aotearoa and Australia) and the Indian Ocean. She is interested in creative history writing, particularly through poetry, with an anti-colonial and anti-racist lens.