[3] After finishing high school, she worked as a travel officer at the Government Tourist Bureau but resigned to marry and have children.

She also served in her iwi (tribe)'s educational organisation, Te Runanga o Ngāti Mutungā, for 20 years.

She continue to work, lecturing at Victoria University on policy development and its impacts on Māori society.

[3] In 1983 she was one of the Spiral Collective, a group of three women who published Keri Hulme's book The Bone People.

[2] Evans was a co-editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry, Ngā Kupu Tïtohu o Aotearoa, which was published in 1989.