Tayi Tibble

Tayi Tibble (Te Whānau ā Apanui/Ngāti Porou) was born in 1995 and lives in Wellington, New Zealand. In 2017, she completed a master’s degree in creative writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. Her debut book of poetry, Poukahangatus is forthcoming from Knopf in July 2022. Her second book of poetry, Rangikura, will be published in the United States in 2023.

“Nobody in the Water,” a Poem by Tayi Tibble

Celebrating This Year's PEN World Voices Festival

May 9, 2022 By Tayi Tibble

‘Tohunga,’ a Poem by Tayi Tibble

"the world / is getting unbearably hot"

September 18, 2019 By Tayi Tibble

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