Karlo Mila | |
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.jpg) Karlo Mila after her investiture as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2019 | |
| Born | 1974 (age 49–50) Rotorua, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Tongan, Pālagi and Samoan |
| Education | PhD, Massey University (2010) |
Karlo Estelle Mila MNZM (born 1974) is a New Zealand writer and poet of Tongan, Pālagi and Samoan descent. Her first collection, Dream Fish Floating, received the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry in 2006 at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards. She has subsequently published two further poetry collections, A Well Written Body (2008) and Goddess Muscle (2020), the latter of which was longlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry.