Suzanne Paki was born in Auckland and was educated at Wellington High School. She is currently a student in Māori and History at Victoria University. She writes poetry and short stories; her writing published in Te Ao Marama was written when she was at high school.
Biographical sources
- "Notes On Contributors."Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 340.
Fiction
- "Flax Kit." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 186-187.
- A story about a child learning how to weave a flax kit from her Nanny.
Poetry
- "The Fish-hook." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 208.
- The speaker reflects on the deeper implications of receiving her grandfather’s fish-hook.
- "Glass Painting." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing for Children. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 4: Te Ara o Te Hau: The Path of the Wind. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1994. 208-209.
- A poem about the speaker’s response to a gift of a painting by a prisoner.