Tayi Tibble (Ngāti Porou/Te Whānau ā Apanui) is a poet and writer based in Te Whanganui a Tara. In 2017, she completed a Master’s degree in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she was the recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing. She is the author of two books, Pōukahangatus, published in 2018 by Victoria University Press, which received the Jessie Mackay Prize for Poetry at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her second book of poetry, Rangikura, was published in 2021 by Victoria University Press. Pōukahangatus is also published by Penguin Randomhouse UK and Knopf in 2022, and Rangikura will be published in the United States by Knopf in 2023. Tayi was born in Wellington in 1995.