Reina Whaitiri

Reina Whaitiri
Whaitiri in 2021
Born	Reina Ann Whaitiri 1943 (age 80–81) New Zealand
Occupations	Scholar poet essayist editor researcher
Notable work	Co-editor of Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English (2003)
Partner	Albert Wendt

Reina Ann Whaitiri (born 1943) is a New Zealand scholar, poet, essayist, editor and researcher. She taught English literature at the University of Auckland and at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa for many years, and has co-edited several notable anthologies of Polynesian writing, including Whetu Moana: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English (2003), which received the Reference and Anthology award in the 2004 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.