Regina de Wolf-Ngarimu

She is an author and poet from the East Coast who 'loves kaimoana -penname R. de Wolf. She's published four novels and two poetry collections since 2020: Guardians of the Ancestors with Pegasus Elliot McKenzie, Book One of the six-part Pacific Fiction Adventure Spirit Voyager Series; Book Two, The Future Weavers; Book Three, Brothers in Whaleson; dystopian novel The Goodness Algorithm; Poetry in a Pear Tree and Poetry in a Pohutukawa. Three short stories, 'Crushed Violet', 'Whale Brothers' and 'The Hollow Mother', were published in the Kaituhi Rāwhiti anthologies. In 2022 she co-edited and published Kaituhi Rāwhiti Two: Weaving of Words with the Tairāwhiti Writers Hub, featurig over 40 writers connected to Te Tairāwhiti. Active in the writing community, Regina encourages rangatahi to kaumatua to find their voice, preserve knowledge and publish, whether its commercial or private work.'

Biographical sources

• Ngā Kupu Wero. Ed. Witi Ihimaera. New Zealand: Penguin Random House New Zealand, 2023. 349.