Her Solaua, 1979 t.p. (Momoe Malietoa Von Reiche) back cover (Momoe Malietoa Von Reiche was born in Western Samoa. She received her primary education in Samoa then attended Nelson Girls' College, Wellington Teachers' College and Victoria University, New Zealand. She specialised in Art at Teachers' College and the Wellington Polytechnic School of Design. In 1966, she returned to Western Samoa where, for four years, she taught Art at the Teachers' Training College. She is a mother of seven children. She has had two exhibitions of her art, one in Wellington and one in Apia. This is her first collection of poems to be published)