Easterine Kire

Easterine Kire poet and author who currently lives in northern Norway. The majority of her writings are based in the lived realities of the people in Nagaland in north-east India. Her motivation to write is summed up in this statement by her in an interview, "I felt we needed to create written Naga Literature. We have so much oral narratives but with oral dying out, it's all going to be lost."[citation needed] Apart from writing, she also performs Jazz poetry with her band Jazzpoesi.