some much-needed explanation of things both futuristic and mundane". A review in the New Zealand Listener described it as an "ambitious book", "at the forefront of a new and particularly interesting genre", but noted that the book was challenging to read in some respects, with the story lacking "a single emotional centre and. In the week before 15 July 2022 it was the second-best selling fiction book in New Zealand. It is a science fiction novel set in the distant future and featuring Pacific culture. In July 2022 Cole's first novel Na Viro was published. In 2021 she was a writer-in-residence at the Michael King Writers Centre through a residency for established Pasifika writers, and had work published in the anthology Out Here: An Anthology of Takatapui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Chris Tse and Emma Barnes. She also had an essay published in the collection New Writing edited by Thom Conroy, and a short story published in Black Marks on the White Page edited by Witi Ihimaera and Tina Makereti. A review by Stuff said that the collection "would be a good book on any reckoning but as a first book it is simply outstanding" it "shows an assurance of tone, a clarity of style and expression, and an ability to handle different voices, that would be the envy of most more experienced authors". In 2017 Cole's short story collection Black Ice Matter received the award for best first book of fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. In 2014 she won a writing contest at the Auckland Pride Festival run by Express magazine. She has said that as "an Indigenous Fijian queer woman writer I feel it is so important that we Indigenous peoples tell our own stories so that we can put forward our perspective and experience".
In 2013 Cole obtained a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Auckland, and in 2020 earned a PhD in Creative Writing from Massey University on the topic of indigenous science fiction. She practiced as a barrister until 2018, when she closed her practice to focus on her writing. She studied law at the University of Auckland and was admitted to the bar in 1991. From 1963 to 1966 she and her family lived on Farewell Spit, where her father was the lighthouse keeper. She is of Fijian, Scottish and Welsh descent.
Her first novel Na Viro was published in July 2022.Ĭole was born in 1960. Her short story collection Black Ice Matter received the award for best first book of fiction at the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Her writing is inspired by her experiences as a queer Fijian woman. Gina Annette Cole MNZM (born 1960) is a New Zealand writer and lawyer.
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