Arapera Hineira Blank (née Kaa; 7 June 1932 – 30 July 2002) was a New Zealand poet, short-story writer and teacher.
[7][3] She was a teacher for 25 years, including teaching te reo Māori and social studies at Glenfield College and Auckland Girls' Grammar School; her pupils knew her as "Ma Blank".
[3] Barbara Brookes, author of A History of New Zealand Women (2016), describes Blank's work as offering "insights into Māori culture, feminism, and the dual Māori-Pakeha world she lived in".
[5] In 2015, her son Anton published a collection of her short stories, poems and essays, accompanied by photos taken by her husband, under the title For Someone I Love.
[13] Tina Makereti for the New Zealand Review of Books noted her "ability to fluently engage two different world views via language" and that the collection is also of historical interest as an insight into the years between 1958 and 1990.