Linda TauKamo-Parkinson lives in Titahi Bay.
Biographical sources
- Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga O Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 37.
Non-fiction
- Year of the Eye.
- Taukamo writes: "I have written Year of the Eye to honour those who haven’t survived, those who’ve been there, those who haven’t and those who wonder."
- Extract from Year of the Eye. Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 3: Te Puāwaitanga O Te Kōrero: The Flowering. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1993. 37-39.
- Taukamo writes an account of her life since her accident and resulting paraplegia, and tells of her involvement with the Mongrel Mob and descent into alcohol, drugs and mental breakdown. Permeated through the hardships, are her warm, amusing interactions with her three children.