Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa, Tūhoe, Ngāpuhi, Waikato) has degrees from the University of Auckland and University of Waikato. An Emeritus Professor, she has worked as a curator, lecturer, critic, researcher and governor in the heritage and university sectors. She is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a Companion of the Royal […]
Talia Marshall (Ngāti Kuia, Rangitāne o Wairau, Ngāti Rārua, Ngāti Takihiku) is a Dunedin based writer. She has had work published in Poetry magazine, Landfall, Sport, North & South, Mana, Canvas, The Spinoff, Newsroom, Pantograph Punch and with City Gallery. In 2020 she was the inaugural Emerging Māori Writer in Residence at the IIML at […]
Jordan Tricklebank (Ngāti Maniapoto, Ngāti Mahuta) is the curator of Māori Literature Blog, a dedicated exploration of literature written in English by Māori authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. He is also the creator and editor of Pūhia, a literary journal that showcases literature and art by Māori creators. Jordan was a recipient of […]
New Zealand poet and editor Kiri Piahana-Wong is of Maori (Ngāti Ranginui), Chinese, and Pākehā (English) ancestry. She is the author of the poetry collection Night Swimming (2013), and she is the publisher at Anahera Press. Her work has appeared in over fifty journals and anthologies, and Kiri has performed at numerous literary festivals across […]
Josiah Morgan (he/him, Kāi Tahu, Ngāti Maniapoto) is a queer interdisciplinary creative from Ōtautahi. Josiah has been writing for several years and has been involved with performing arts nearly his entire life. His latest book i’m still growing brings his poetry into print in Aotearoa for the first time after publishing his first four books […]
Stacey Teague (Ngāti Maniapoto/Ngāpuhi) is a poet, publisher, editor and teacher. She is currently a publisher and editor at Tender Press. Her new pukapuka, Plastic is out now with Te Herenga Waka University Press. Congratulations e hoa on the launch of your collection Plastic. Sometimes writers talk about their book as if it is […]
Jade Kake is the director and founder of Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism and has a Master of Architecture degree. She is also a writer of fiction and non-fiction. Jade has written Rebuilding the Kāinga – Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri, and chapters in collections about architecture and design and has also written for Stuff, The […]
Shelley Burne-Field (Sāmoa, Ngāti Mutunga, Ngāti Rārua, Pākehā) writes fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry. She comes from Te Matau-a-Māui | Hawke’s Bay and is an alum of the University of Auckland’s Master of Creative Writing, as well as the Te Papa Tupu mentoring programme. Her work has appeared in local and international literary journals and […]
He kaiako reo Māori ahau ka 18 ngā tau e mahi ana. Ko te reo Māori he wāhanga ōku e whai oranga ai au i te ao nei otiia, te tuhi pakiwaiatara he wāhanga ōku e whakaea nei i ōku hiahia, hei kai mā tōku ngākau. Koia hoki pea hei koha māku ki te ao […]
Born and raised in Pātea, Airana Ngarewa (Ngāti Ruanui, Ngā Rauru, Ngāruahine) is a teacher and writes about Māori affairs for The Spinoff. His writing has also been published by RNZ, NZ Herald, Newsroom and Landfall. He won the short story and poetry competitions at the Ronald Hugh Morrieson Literary Awards in 2022. The Bone […]
