Tina Makereti is a fiction writer. She has also been recognized for her non-fiction, winning the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing (Non-fiction) in 2009. Makereti holds a PhD from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She has twice won the Fiction award at the Ngā Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards, first in 2011 for her short story collection Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa (2010), and again in 2014 for her debut novel Where the Rekohu Bone Sings (2014). Biography and photograph courtesy of Read NZ.