Anne-Marie Te Whiu an Australian-born Māori who belongs to the Te Rarawa iwi in Hokianga, Aotearoa NZ.  She lives on unceded Wangal Country. She is a cultural producer, writer, editor and weaver.

Most recently she has edited the Woven collection, Tony Birch’s Whisper Songs, Bebe Backhouse’s More Than These Bones as well as Solid Air: Australia & New Zealand Spoken Word which she co-edited.  
Between 2015 – 2017 Ani co-directed the Queensland Poetry Festival, and between 2019 – 2023 she worked at Red Room Poetry where she led projects such as Fair Trade and Poetry Month. Most recently she co-curated the 2024 Writers Programme for the Aotearoa New Zealand International Arts Festival.

She was a 2023 Carriageworks Clothing Stores Studio Artist recipient and in 2022 she was a recipient of The Wheeler Centre’s Next Chapter program and this year she was awarded the The Next Chapter Alumni Poetry Fellowship. She is a Creative Australia Fellowship recipient and has been awarded residencies at Bundanon and Varuna Writers House.

Her writing has been commissioned and published broadly across Australia and Aotearoa including Cordite, Australian Poetry Journal, Rabbit Journal, SBS Voices, Open Books, Tupuranga Journal, Another Australia and more. 
Ani’s forthcoming debut poetry collection titled Mettle will be published by University of Queensland Press in 2025.