Hinemoana Baker
Hinemoana Baker is a New Zealand Aotearoa poet, musician and recording artist, teacher of creative writing and occasional broadcaster. She was born in Christchurch and grew up in Whakatane and Nelson, and descends from the Ngāi Tahu tribe in the South Island of New Zealand Aotearoa, and from Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa in the North Island. She is currently living in Germany, after completing 12 months as Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer in Residence 2016.
Her writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. Her works include the poetry collections 'mātuhi | needle', 'kōiwi kōiwi | bone bone', and 'waha | mouth'. Her first album, 'puāwai' was a finalist for the New Zealand Music Awards and the APRA Silver Scrolls Māori Language award. She also co-edited the anthology 'Kaupapa: New Zealand Poets, World Issues' in 2007 and the '4th Floor' online literary journal of Whitireia Polytechnic in 2008, and has released further CDs of music and poetry. She is one of six German and New Zealand poets to contribute to a collection Transit of Venus, published by Victoria University Press in 2016.
In addition to her Creative New Zealand residency in Berlin, Hinemoana Baker was Arts Queensland Poet in Residence in 2009 and writer in residence with the International Writing Programme at the University of Iowa in 2010. She spent 2014 as writer in residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University. She has appeared at festivals and events in New Zealand and in Australia, Indonesia, Europe and the US.
She holds an MA in creative writing from Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters.
