Maraea Rakuraku is a Māori playwright, poet, short story writer, and broadcaster from Aotearoa (New Zealand) who is also working on her first full-length novel. Rakuraku belongs to the Ngāi Tūhoe (Tūhoe iwi, “tribe”). She is a doctoral student in the International Institute of Modern Letters of Victoria University of Wellington, where she earned an MA in 2016. Rakuraku works to provide space for those peoples who sit on the margins while exploring the continued impact of colonialism in 21st Century Aotearoa.