Whiti Hereaka is a novelist and playwright of Māori and Pākehā descent. Her iwi affiliations are Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngāti Whakaue, Tuhourangi, Ngāti Tumatawera, Tainui. She lives in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, and is the author of four novels: The Graphologist’s Apprentice, Bugs, Legacy and Kurangaituku. She is also co-editor, with Witi Ihimaera, of an anthology of Māori myths — Pūrākau — published in 2019. Her latest work, You Are Here, a collaboration with artist Peata Larkin, was published by Massey University Press in 2025 as part of their Kōrero series.