A performance poet and artist, John Pule is largely self-taught and leads a double career as a visual artist and writer.

Born in the village of Liku, Niue in 1962, John moved to New Zealand with his family in 1964.

He began writing in 1980 after reading the works of New Zealand poets and has since published two novels: The Shark That Ate The Sun (1992), Burn My Head In Heaven (1998); and four books of poems: Sonnets to Van Gogh (1983), Flowers After The Sun (1984), The Bond of Time (1998) and Tagata Kapakiloi (2004).

John has exhibited his paintings and taken part in many performance/poetry readings in the Pacific: Niue, Fiji, Rarotonga, Hawaii, Tonga, Rotuma and Solomon Islands.