Tibble was born in Wellington in 1995, and from age 7 grew up in Porirua where she attended Aotea College.
[1] Tibble completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (based at Victoria University of Wellington) in 2017, and received the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for her work In a Fish Tank Filled with Pink Light.
[12] The New York Times commented:[13] This chatty, winsome debut by a young New Zealand poet mines family history, Maori myth and the residue of pop culture to fashion a striking sensibility in which superstition wards off ghosts and a David Bowie sticker on a laptop resembles "a tiny ... genderless angel lit up by green charger light.
[1] Reviewer Hamesh Wyatt, writing for the Otago Daily Times, described it as a "fiery new work" and an "immersive trip".
Hold this book in your reading hands and check out the electricity when you stand in the river, the ocean.
[6][20][21] In 2018 she read her poem "Hoki Mai" at an Anzac Day parade attended by 25,000 people in Wellington.
[2] In May 2022 Tibble headlined two events at the PEN World Voices festival on international and indigenous poetry.