Collection: Hinemoana Baker

Author photo: Ashley Clark

Hinemoana Baker (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa) is a poet, performer and musician. She is the author of mātuhi | needle, Kōiwi Kōiwi, waha | mouth, and Funkhaus (shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry). In 2009 she was the Arts Queensland Poet in Residence; in 2010 she was one of thirty-eight writers in residence at the University of Iowa International Writing Programme; and in 2014 she was writer in residence at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University in Wellington.