'Nicole Titihuia Hawkins (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Pāhauwera) is a writer, home-baker, red lipstick enthusiast, aunty and proud māmā. She teaches high school English and Tikanga a-Iwi and runs side hustles with her besties in her spare time. Her collection, Whai (Tender Press, 2021) won the Jessie Mackay Prize for best first book of poetry at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.'
Biographical sources
- https://thespinoff.co.nz/authors/nicole-hawkins
Te Awa o Kupu. Eds. Vaughan Rapatahana & Kiri Piahana-Wong. New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. 398.
Non-fiction
- "For the love of tikanga, please stop putting food on your head." The Spinoff 14 August, 2019. https://thespinoff.co.nzatea/14-08-2019/for-the-love-of-tikanga-please-stop-putting-food-on-your-head
- "How I write: Nicole Titihuia Hawkins and the magic of Māori storytelling." Stuff, May 25, 2022. https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/books/300594619/how-i-write-nicole-titihuia-hawkins-and-the-magic-of-mori-storytelling
Poetry
- Whai. [Wellington]: We Are Babies, 2021.
- This collection of poetry was awarded the Jessie Mackay Prize for the best first book of poetry at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2022.
- Tuia. Whai. Tender Press, 2021. Rpt. in Te Awa o Kupu. Eds. Vaughan Rapatahana & Kiri Piahana-Wong. New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. 58-60.
- "Nan's tangi" The Spinoff 18 November, 2022. https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/18-11-2022/the-friday-poem-nans-tangi-by-nicole-titihuia-hawkins