Kiri Piahana-Wong is a poet and editor, and she is the publisher at Anahera Press. Kiri’s poetry has appeared in over forty journals and anthologies, including Essential NZ Poems, Landfall, Poetry NZ, Puna Wai Kōrero, Tātai Whetū: Seven Māori Women Poets in Translation, A Treasury of NZ Poems for Children, Dear Heart: 150 New Zealand Love Poems, Vā: Stories by Women of the Moana, and more. She has one full-length collection, Night Swimming, and a second, Tidelines, is forthcoming. Kiri also works with poetry and fiction as a book reviewer, manuscript assessor, anthology editor, NZSA mentor, and project manager. Her most recent publication is Te Awa o Kupu, one of two anthologies of contemporary Māori writing, co-edited with Vaughan Rapatahana and Witi Ihimaera. Kiri lives in Whanganui with her family.
