Matariki Bennett (Ngāti Pikiao, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hinerangi) is an award-winning poet and filmmaker. She's also a curator of the Auckland Writer's Festival alongside her father, writer and director, Michael Bennett, and a founding member of the bilingual Slam Poetry Collective, Nga Hinepukorero, which was honoured with the CNZ Pirere Award in 2021.