Reina Whaitiri

Reina Ann Whaitiri (born 1943) is a New Zealand scholar, poet, essayist, editor and researcher. She taught English literature at the University of Auckland and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for many years, and has co-edited several notable anthologies of Polynesian writing, including ''Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English'' (2003), which received the Reference and Anthology award in the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. Provided by Wikipedia