Audrey Brown-Pereira

Audrey Teuki Tetupuariki Tuioti Brown-Pereira (born 1975) is a Cook Islands diplomat, public servant, and poet, of Cook Islands, Maori and Samoan descent.

Biography Brown-Pereira was born on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands and grew up in Papatoetoe, Auckland, New Zealand. She attended the University of Auckland and completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in political studies and sociology. In 2018 she was part of the Cook Islands delegation to the 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference.

Brown-Pereira began writing poetry in 1994. Her work has been published in journals such as Trout, and she has written for art catalogues such as Akara ki Mua (2001) and Inei Konei (1998). She has performed her poetry at the New Zealand Fringe Festival and represented the Cook Islands at the spoken word festival Poetry Parnassus in London in 2012. Her poetry is studied by postgraduate students of Pacific poetry at the University of Auckland. She also appeared in two experimental films, The Cats Are Crying (1995) and The Rainbow (1998). UPU was remounted as part of the Kia Mau Festival in Wellington in June 2021.

Works Threads of Tivaevae: Kaleidoskope of Kolours, 2002 (with Veronica Vaevae and Catherine George)

"Local Tourist on a Bus Ride Home" and "Mixed Bag of Tropical Sweets. Sitting Outside the Hotel R & R." in

Personal life Brown-Pereira is married with two daughters and lives in Samoa.