Books By Whiti Hereaka - Author

Whiti Hereaka (Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngati Whakaue, Tuhourangi, Pakeha) is an award-winning novelist and playwright. She holds a Master's in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She is the author of three novels: The Graphologist's Apprentice, and the award-winning YA novels Bugs and Legacy. In 2019, Legacy won the New Zealand Children and Young Adults Book Award for YA fiction. She is also co-editor, with Witi Ihimaera, of an anthology of Maori myths, Purakau, published in 2019. Whiti teaches Writing for the Young at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University.