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Tina Makereti (Te Atiawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Ngati Rangatahi-Matakore, Pakeha) is the author of three acclaimed novels: Where the Rekohu Bone Sings, The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke, and most recently The Mires. In 2022, her essay ' Lumpectomy' won the Landfall Essay Prize, and in 2016, her short story ' Black Milk' won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize for the Pacific Region. Her first novel won the 2014 Nga Kupu Ora Aotearoa Maori Book Award for Fiction, also won by her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa, in 2011.
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