Jessica Hansell, best known by her rap nickname Coco Solid, is one of Aotearoa's most impressive artists. She's a writer, poet, musician, multimedia artist, creator of cult Maori cartoon Aroha Bridge, and has multiple screenwriting credits. Her latest project is a work of autobiographical fiction called How to Loiter in a Turf War, following three friends navigating relationships, racial tensions and rampant property development in their home of Tamaki Makaurau. Auckland's gentrification takes centre stage in the novel, a subject of personal pain for the author, who describes the transformation of the suburbs where her whanau lived for years, as like having her "world rewritten in front of her". Coco Solid will be appearing at the Auckland Writers' Festival next month.