Tina Makereti (Te Ātiawa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Rangatahi-Matakore) writes novels, short fiction and creative nonfiction.

Her latest work is the internationally published novel, The Mires, which was shortlisted for the NZ Ockham Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, and a collection of personal essays, This Compulsion in Us. She is also author of The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke, Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings and Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa. She is co-editor of Black Marks on the White Page, an anthology that celebrates Māori and Pasifika writing.

In 2022, her essay ‘Lumpectomy’ won the Landfall Essay Competition. In 2016 her short story ‘Black Milk’ won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, Pacific region.

Tina teaches a Master of Arts Creative Writing workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.