Hinemoana Baker
Baker in 2016
Baker in 2016
Born1968 (age 54–55)
Christchurch, New Zealand
Occupation
  • Poet
  • musician
  • teacher
  • broadcaster
NationalityNew Zealand
EducationMA in creative writing, Victoria University of Wellington
Website
www.hinemoana.co.nz

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

Biography

Baker was born in Christchurch in 1968 and grew up in Whakatane and Nelson. She descends from the Ngāi Tahu tribe in the South Island of New Zealand, and from Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Toa and Te Āti Awa in the North Island. She also has English and German (Bavarian) heritage.[2] Baker identifies as queer and takatāpui.[2]

As of 2021 she is living in Germany, after completing 12 months as Creative New Zealand's Berlin Writer in Residence in 2016.[3][4][5] She was chosen as the New Zealand Randell Cottage Writing Fellow for 2024.[6]

Baker holds an MA in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington.

Career

Baker's writing has been published in a number of journals and anthologies.[7] Her works include the poetry collections mātuhi | needle (2004),[8] kōiwi kōiwi | bone bone (2010),[9] waha | mouth (2014)[10] and funkhaus (2020).[11]

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.[12] 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.[3] She is one of six German and New Zealand poets to contribute to a collection Transit of Venus,[13] published by Victoria University Press in 2016.[3]

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.[14]

In addition to her Creative New Zealand residency in Berlin,[15] 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.[3] 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.

Funkhaus was shortlisted for the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[16]

References

  1. ↑ "Hinemoana Baker – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 "About | hinemoana baker". Hinemoana Baker. Retrieved 17 June 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Baker, Hinemoana". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "HOME". Hinemoana Baker. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Baker, Hinemoana (1 August 2021). "The Sunday Essay: Letter from Aurelia". The Spinoff. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
  6. ↑ "Hinemoana Baker selected as 2024 Randell Cottage Writer in Residence". Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Retrieved 29 December 2023.
  7. ↑ "Hinemoana Baker – Academy of New Zealand Literature". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "matuhi / needle". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "Koiwi Koiwi". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  10. ↑ "waha | mouth". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  11. ↑ Baker, Hinemoana, 1968- (6 May 2021). Funkhaus. Wellington, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-77656-314-2. OCLC 1153663524.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ↑ "inemoana Baker awarded writer's residency in Berlin". Scoop. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  13. ↑ "Transit poets know no bounds". gisborneherald.co.nz. Archived from the original on 14 October 2018. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "Hinemoana Baker 2004". ŌRONGOHAU | BEST NEW ZEALAND POEMS. International Institute of Modern Letters. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
  15. ↑ "Hinemoana Baker set for Berlin writer's residency". Stuff. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  16. ↑ "Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 3 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.