Robert Sullivan

Robert Sullivan's twelve books include the long-poem Star Waka (Auckland University Press) which has been reprinted five times and translated into German, the graphic novel Maui: Legends of the Outcast, illustrated by Chris Slane, and the New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year, Weaving Earth and Sky, illustrated by Gavin Bishop. He co-edited two anthologies of Polynesian poetry in English with Albert Wendt and Reina Whaitiri, Whetu Moana and Mauri Ola. Again with Reina Whaitiri, in 2014 he edited the first comprehensive anthology of Maori poetry in English, Puna Wai Korero (Auckland University Press). Sullivan is head of Manukau Institute of Technology’s Creative Writing School. On his maternal side he belongs to the Northland iwi of Ngapuhi, and on his paternal side he belongs to the South Island iwi, Kai Tahu, with Irish roots in Rosscommon and Galway.