Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore, and Pākehā), is the author of three acclaimed novels: Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings, The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, and The Mires. Her essay “Lumpectomy” won the Landfall Essay Prize in 2022, and her short story “Black Milk” won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Pacific Region in 2016. Tina's debut novel received the 2014 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Award for Fiction, and her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, won the same award in 2011. Alongside Witi Ihimaera, she co-edited the anthology Black Marks on the White Page. She has been awarded numerous residencies and presented her work internationally. Tina teaches a Master of Arts in Creative Writing workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters.

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