Simone Kaho

Simone Kaho (born 1978) is a New Zealand poet of Tongan descent. In 2016, she published a collection of poetry Lucky Punch. The New Zealand Book Council included Lucky Punch on their list of "21 new Kiwi books we can’t wait to read". Her second collection, Heal!, explores the PTSD she developed after an assault and was published in 2022.

Kaho was included in the 20/20 Collection published by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust, her work having been selected by poet Paula Green. In 2022, she was chosen by Creative New Zealand as the 2022 Emerging Pasifika Writer in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington, which she used to write non-fiction about identity, the colonisation of New Zealand, and the Pacific diaspora.