Hinemoana Baker

Hinemoana Baker (born 1968) is a New Zealand poet, musician and recording artist, teacher of creative writing and broadcaster.[1]

Hinemoana Baker

Biography

Baker was born in Christchurch in 1968 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.[2][3]

Baker holds an MA in creative writing from Victoria University's International Institute of Modern Letters.

Career

Baker's writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies.[4] Her works include the poetry collections mātuhi | needle (2004),[5] kōiwi kōiwi | bone bone (2010),[6] waha | mouth (2014)[7] and funkhaus (2020).[8]

As a musician she has recorded albums of original music. Her first album, 'puāwai' (2004) was a finalist for the New Zealand Music Awards and the APRA Silver Scrolls Māori Language award.[9] Bas has co-edited the anthology 'Kaupapa: New Zealand Poets, World Issues' in 2007 and the '4th Floor' online literary journal of Whitireia Polytechnic in 2008.[10] She is one of six German and New Zealand poets to contribute to a collection Transit of Venus,[11] published by Victoria University Press in 2016.[12]

Baker has written two plays which were presented in Taki Rua Theatre's Te Reo Māori Season. Māua Tāua, (produced in 1995) and Pūkeko Tuawhā.[13]

In addition to her Creative New Zealand residency in Berlin,[14] 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.[15] 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.

References
  1. "Hinemoana Baker – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. "| New Zealand Book Council". www.bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  3. "HOME". Hinemoana Baker. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  4. "Hinemoana Baker – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  5. "matuhi / needle". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  6. "Koiwi Koiwi". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  7. "waha | mouth". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. Baker, Hinemoana, 1968-. Funkhaus. Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 1-77656-314-X. OCLC 1153663524.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. "inemoana Baker awarded writer's residency in Berlin". Scoop. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  10. "| New Zealand Book Council". www.bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  11. "Transit poets know no bounds". gisborneherald.co.nz. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  12. "| New Zealand Book Council". www.bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  13. "Hinemoana Baker 2004". ŌRONGOHAU | BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMS. International Institute of Modern Letters. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  14. "Hinemoana Baker set for Berlin writer's residency". Stuff. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  15. "| New Zealand Book Council". www.bookcouncil.org.nz. Retrieved 14 October 2018.

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