I am a senior lecturer in Māori history who belongs to Ngāti Raukawa, Ngāti Whakaue, and Te Whānau-a-Apanui and who is fortunate enough to live and work at one of the places I call home beneath te pae maunga o Tararua, where the sun descends into the sea over Kapiti. My work is grounded in Indigenous knowledges and methodologies and highlights Indigenous agency, creativity, power, and beauty. 

The words of Cherrie Moraga (2011) speak to my approach:

'The best of creative writing...is able to traverse great borders of mind and matter. The distinctions disappear. Our present moment becomes history. History is enacted myth. Myth is remembered story. Story makes medicine. I am in daily search of these acts of remembering of who we once were..

I write to remember.
I make rite (ceremony) to remember.
It is my right to remember.'