Anne-Marie Te Whiu is an Australian-born-Māori whose whakapapa belongs to Te Rarawa iwi through her father’s line and English, Irish and Welsh through her mother’s ancestry. She is a freelance poet, editor, cultural producer and weaver whose central praxis focusses on artistic collaboration and platforming the determination and amplification of Indigenous and POC artists.
Anne-Marie has directed, programmed and curated festivals and events for over 20 years, such as Zillmere Multicultural Festival, Woodford Folk Festival, Home Festival, Queensland Poetry Festival, Brisbane Writers Festival (Aotearoa & Pasifika program, Red Room Poetry - Poetry Month, Fair Trade and more, QTOPIA (Queer First Nations Languages exhibition) and Aotearoa NZ Festival of the Arts - Writers Program.
She is a director of the Blak & Bright board (2024-2025) and was previously a board member of Emerging Writers Festival (2024) and Running Dog Journal (2024) boards. She was a founding member of Taraheke Collective (2022).
Anne-Marie has guest edited multiple poetry collections and journals including Woven (Magabala, 2024), More Than These Bones (Magabala, 2023) Whisper Songs (UQP, 2021), Solid Air: Australia & NZ Spoken Word (UQP, 2019) Debris Journal: Issue 02 Hospitality (2022) and Cordite Journal: 116 Remember (2025).
She has been selected as part of the 2025 Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity Masters program hosted by Melbourne University. Previously she attained certificates in the intensive Master of Indigenous Studies: Māori Indigenous Futures: The Gift of Intergenerational Thinking, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 2022 as well as Te Hiringa a Tuhi, the Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop at Victoria University of Wellington's International Institute of Modern Letters, Victor Roger, 2019.
Anne-Marie’s work has been published broadly on various platforms (anthologies, journals, magazines, exhibitions) across Australia and Aotearoa including SBS, In*ter*is*land Collective, Open Book (State Library of NSW), Tupuranga Journal, Awa Wahine, un_Projectors, Kaldor Public Art Projects, BLEED 2022, Contemporary Hum, Another Australia, No Other Place to Stand, Rabbit Journal, Cordite Journal, Australian Poetry Journal and more.
She has been awarded several fellowships including the Australia Council Individual Projects Fellowship, Neilma Sidney Travel Fund, The Next Chapter Fellowship as well as The Next Chapter Alumni Fellowship.
Anne-Marie has been the recipient of multiple writers and artistic residencies including The Church Rawene Residency - Aotearoa NZ, Varuna Residential Fellowship, Bundanon Artist in Residence, Clothing Stores Artist Studio Carriageworks, Unyoked Writers Residency and a Running Dog Writer’s Residency.
Anne-Marie’s debut poetry collection titled Mettle is published by University of Queensland Press. Buy here.
