Marewa Patricia Glover

Marewa Glover was born in Helensville and educated at numerous primary and secondary schools in Auckland Coromandel and Australia. She attended the University of New South Wales and the University of Waikato and has graduated with a B.A. and an M.Soc.Sc. majoring in Psychology. Marewa’s Masters thesis was on Māori women’s experience of male-partner violence. She has also graduated with a Diploma in Community Psychology. Marewa writes poetry, short stories, non-fiction articles and academic research. She is a student of The Writing School and has attended Cathy Dunsford’s writing workshop ‘Writing Ourselves Whole’, and a ‘Writing for Television Workshop’. In 1992 her paper presented at the New Zealand Psychological Society AGM/Conference was awarded best student paper at the Conference.

Marewa has performed her poetry at many writers’ festivals including the Sydney University Women’s Festival (1986), at Harold Park Hotel in Sydney, the Lismore Women’s Festival in Australia (1987), the Listener Women’s Book Festivals at the Aotea Centre in Auckland, N.Z. (1992), at Hamilton (1990 and 1992), HERO Festival Literary events and Gala Opening (1998). She has read her work at book launches, Java Jive, Auckland, Poetry Live, Conferences and Hui, Auckland War Memorial Museum, Māori writers’ forum, Lesbian Literary Allsorts, Auckland Women’s Bookshop (2000).

In 1991 Marewa was a “Writing as a Healing Tool” Workshop facilitator and in 1998 she was a Guest Writer for the West Auckland Lesbian Support Group. From 1990-1993 she was a member of the New Zealand Freelance Writers Association.

Marewa has received various writing awards including semi-finalist in the 1998 International Poetry Competition; 3rd equal in the 1998 Labrys Trust Short Story Competition; Runner Up in the 1998 Lesbian Quarterly Short Story Competition; Finalist in the 1999 Huia Short Story Competition, and Finalist in the 2003 Huia E Tuhi! Get Writing Short Story Competition.

Marewa has worked as a part-time counsellor with Rape Crisis Te Awamutu and is a past member of Rape Crisis and Women’s Refuge. She works as a Community Psychologist and as a Researcher. In June 1996 Marewa was awarded a Health Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship to undertake PhD research at the University of Auckland School of Medicine on ‘The Effectiveness of Māori Smoking Cessation Methods.’ She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Behavioural Science in 2001 at the Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences at the University of Auckland, N.Z.

Biographical sources

• Correspondence from Marewa Glover, Jan. 1993, 20 Jan., 22 Apr., 21 June 1998, 13 Oct. 2004, and 18, 20, 22 Feb. 2006.
• Spiral 7: A Collection of Lesbian Art and Writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand. Ed. Heather McPherson, Julie King, Marian Evans, Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Wellington, N.Z.: Spiral in association with and distributed by Daphne Brasell Associates, 1992. 140.
• Broadsheet 197 (1993): 37.