Tayi Tibble

Tayi Tibble (Ngāti Porou/Te Whānau ā Apanui) is an award winning poet and writer who has published two poetry collections. She is a graduate from the International Institute of Modern Letters and the 2017 recipient of the Adam Foundation Prize for best manuscript. Her MA portfolio was the basis for her first book, Poūkahangatus, which won the Best First Book of Poetry Award at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her second book Rangikura was shortlisted for the 2022 Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Tayi’s work has been published in various journals and magazines, including Granta online, Starling, The Spinoff, Sport, Pantograph Punch, The Wireless and Poetry Magazine and the anthology The Friday Poem: 100 New Zealand Poems (Luncheon Sausage Books, 2018). Her essay ‘On Being Skux’ is one of the most-read pieces ever on The Pantograph Punch.