Hayley Marama Cavino, PhD

Ko Aorangi, ko Kopukairoa ngā maunga

Ko Moawhango, ko Waitao ngā awa

Ko Takitimu, ko Mātaatua ngā waka

Ko Mōkai Pātea, ko Tauranga Moana ngā whenua

Ko Ngāti Whitikaupeka, ko Ngāti Whatumāmoa, ko Ngāti Pūkenga ki Tauranga ngā iwi

Ko Ngāti Whiti-tuturu te hapū

Ko Te Riu o Puanga, Ko Moawhango, ko Te Whetū o Te Rangi ngā marae

Ko Hayley ahau

Hayley Marama Cavino, PhD is of Ngāti Whitikaupeka, Ngāti Pūkenga ki Tauranga and Clan Mac Conchradha (County Tipperary, Ireland) descent. She also has ancestors from Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Whakaue, East Anglia, the Scottish Lowlands, Co. Cavan and Co. Cork (Ireland), and Amsterdam/London (Jewish). She is a former researcher and academic who, since returning to Aotearoa in 2023, writes full time from her home in Tauranga Moana. Hayley has previously published academic pieces in the American Journal of Evaluation, Sexual Abuse in Australia & New Zealand: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and the edited volumes He Rau Murimuri Aroha: Wāhine Māori Insights Into Historical Trauma & Healing (Te Atawhai o Te Ao) and Decolonizing Research: Indigenous Storywork as Methodology (Zed Books, London). She recently published her first piece of creative non-fiction in the anthology 37 More Voices (Apple An Books, New York). She is currently drafting an ancestral memoir that braids together the story of a 19th Century scandal involving one of her Tauranga Moana tūpuna and her experiences of recovery from trauma. In addition to writing, Hayley is a practitioner of raranga (Māori weaving), and a student of te reo Māori and te reo français. For 23 years she lived and worked on the traditional territories of the Onondaga Nation, Firekeepers of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, in Upstate New York. She now lives in Tauranga Moana.

hcavino@gmail.com