Keri Kaa

Hohi Ngapera Te Moana Keri Kaa CNZM QSO (1942 – 26 August 2020) was a New Zealand writer, educator, and advocate for the Māori language.

[2] During her time in Wellington Kaa was involved with the Haeata Women's Collective (a group of Māori women artists), the Herstory diary project, the Waiata Koa collective and in organising vibrant book launches, for Patricia Grace's The Kuia & the Spider Te Kuia me Te Pūngāwerewere, which she translated into Māori with Hirini Melbourne; and, at Te Ako Pai, for Keri Hulme's the bone people.

[6] After returning to Rangitukia, Kaa both taught and studied at the Te Wananga o Raukawa campus at Hicks Bay.

[2] In addition to her education work, Kaa was also involved in Māori theatre, film-making and television.

Her children's book Taka Ki Ro Wai, written in the Waiapu dialect of Māori, won the inaugural Māori language category in the New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and recognised in the National Design Awards for creative director Martin Page's work.