Winter is of Māori (Waitaha) and Pākehā descent, and holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
[2] She cites Hone Tuwhare, Patricia Grace, Sam Hunt, James K Baxter and Witi Ihimaera as influences.
Siobhan Harvey in The New Zealand Herald described it "a stunning book" with themes of nature, family and loss, confirming Winter "as a fresh, necessary voice, one we'll hear a lot more about in the future".
[8] Paula Green praised the work's treatment of grief; her review comments that Winter "is translating personal experience into hybrid writing and it is incredibly potent".
[9] Winter's work has appeared on the fence of the Anteroom Art Gallery in Port Chalmers[4] and on a FIFA Women's World Cup mural in The Octagon, Ōtepoti Dunedin.