Hinemoana Baker is a poet, musician, and creative writing teacher. She traces her ancestry from Ngati Raukawa, Ngati Toa Rangatira, Te Ati Awa, and Ngai Tahu, as well as from England and Germany (Oberammergau in Bayern). She is the author of the poetry collections Funkhaus (VUP, 2020), waha | mouth (VUP, 2014), koiwi koiwi (VUP, 2010), and matuhi | needle (co-published in 2004 by Victoria University Press and Perceval Press). Hinemoana has edited several online and print anthologies and released several albums of original music and more experimental sound art. She works in English, Maori and more recently German, the latter in collaboration with German poet and sound performer Ulrike Almut Sandig. She is currently living in Berlin, where she was 2016 Creative New Zealand Berlin Writer in Residence, and completing a PhD at Potsdam University.