Hinemoana Baker
Hinemoana Baker is a writer, musician, sound enthusiast and creative writing tutor. She hails from Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Te Āti Awa and Ngāi Tahu on her father’s side, and her mother's ancestors are from England and Bavaria. Her first collection of poetry, mātuhi | needle (2004), was released in New Zealand and the United States, and her second, kōiwi kōiwi | bone bone, was launched in July 2010. Her third, waha | mouth, will be published during her 2014 term as Victoria University/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the Institute of Modern Letters.
Baker comments: ‘This poem takes its recurring motif, and the first words of the penultimate line, from the novel Winter in the Blood by Blackfeet writer James Welch (Penguin, 2008).’
