[3] Her PhD in Creative Writing (2013), also from Victoria University of Wellington, used indigenous literature and perspectives to explore ideas of identity and how this is understood and transmitted following colonisation.

[3] In 2014 she was convenor of the first Māori and Pasifika Writing Workshop (Te Hiringa a Tuhi) at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University.

[6] Her writing has appeared in many literary journals, magazines and anthologies including Sport, The NZ Listener, Metro, Huia Short Stories 8, Hue and Cry, JAAM, Turbine, Overland Aotearoa and Landfall.

[8] While her 2018 novel The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke has been described as based on the life of Hemi Pomara,[9] the Author's note to the novel is clear that the novel 'in no way represents the real historical figure'.

[16] In 2009, Makereti won the non-fiction category of the Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize for Creative Science Writing with her piece Twitch[17] and the Pikihuia Award[18] for Best Short Story Written in English for Skin and Bones.