Ruby Solly (Kāi Tahu, Waitaha, Kāti Māmoe) is a taonga pūoro practitioner, writer, musician, and music therapist, living in Poneke which is also the title of her first album. She has published two books with Te Herenga Waka University Press; Tōku Pāpā (2020) and The Artist (2024). She has been published in various Aotearoa based journals as well as in America, Australia, and Antarctica. She has recently completed a doctoral thesis within public health at Massey University, on the use of taonga pūoro for hauora. She tries hard to be a compassionate friend of her bipolar disorder.