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 London by way of Amsterdam. She is a former researcher and academic who, since returning to Aotearoa in 2023, now writes full time. 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 a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors/Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa and Tauranga Writers. Since 2024, she has been a member of the Downtown Writer’s Center (Syracuse, New York) ‘The Flow’ Nonfiction Workshop, which meets weekly. 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 at home in Tauranga Moana where she is currently drafting an ancestral memoir that braids together the story of a 19th Century scandal involving one of her tūpuna, and her recovery from these and other more recent traumatic events.
hcavino@gmail.com
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