Tayi Tibble

Tayi Tibble is a poet whose works reflect Māori culture and her own family history. Her first collection of poetry, Poūkahangatus (2018), received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, and was published in the United States and the United Kingdom in 2022. Her second collection, Rangikura, was published in 2021. In May 2022 Tayi headlined two events at the PEN World Voices festival on international and indigenous poetry. In July 2023 her poem ‘Creation Story’ was published in The New Yorker; she is the fifth New Zealander and first Māori writer to have work published in the magazine.