She 'is from Te Matau-a-Māui (Hawke's Bay). A graduate of the University of Auckland's Master of Creative Writing and the Te Papa Tupu mentoring programme, Burne-Field is the author of artickes, personal essays and fiction. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Huia Short Storie 14 (2021); Stong Words #2: The Best of the Landfall Essay Competition (2021); The Best of E-Tangata II (2022), and First Peoples: Shared Stories (2022). Her fiction has also been published on Radio New Zealand. Burne-Field's story 'Speaking in Tongues' was the only New Zealand finalist in the 2022 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Another work of short fiction 'Pinching out Dahlias' (2021) - with its deluded Pākeha narrator who believes 'Māori children have different values' - is the most-read short story ever published on the Newsroom site.'
Biographical sources
- HIWA: Contemporary Māori Short Stories. Edited by Paula Morris, Consulting Editor: Darryn Joseph. Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press, 2023. 11.
Fiction
- HIWA: Contemporary Māori Short Stories. Edited by Paula Morris, Consulting Editor: Darryn Joseph. Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press, 2023. 13-20.