Freya Daly Sadgrove is a Pākehā writer and performer born in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. She is the engine behind live poetry event Show Ponies, and her first poetry collection, Head Girl, was published in February 2020 with Te Herenga Waka University Press. She is currently presenting the début season of Whole New Woman, a genre-melting performance work, at BATS as part of NZ Fringe 2023.