Teresa Hakaraia

Exploring the space between worlds and the edges of identity.

Welcome to my website.
I’m so glad you’ve found your way here- whether through my published work online or in print, or simply by happy accident. However you arrived, welcome.

When I first published this website to see how it looked, I discovered I couldn’t unpublish the site itself- so here it stands, growing in real time. Thank you for your patience while I get everything running live.

If you came here after reading my debut novel, Crossing the Divide: Ahartae, that’s wonderful- this book is what sparked the site’s creation.

If you discovered me through my poem in Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook 2025, I’m delighted it found you.

If you arrived through my published research, Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” and William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity- thank you for taking the time to read it.

And if you’re here as an author, hoping I might read your ARC or published work, fantastic- let’s get started.

Each of these four paths shows a part of who I am as a writer: purposeful, a social commentator, imaginative, and always reflecting, reviewing, researching, and reimagining. Take your time, explore, and enjoy the fragments of worlds still coming together.