Jacqueline Sturm

Jacqueline Cecilia Sturm, also known as Jacqueline Baxter (1927 – 30 December 2009) was a poet and writer of short stories. She was born in Opunake, Taranaki, New Zealand, and was the first Māori woman to complete an undergraduate university degree, at Victoria University College, followed by an MA in Philosophy. Her stories were published in several New Zealand literature collections and student magazines in the 1950s and early 1960s, but not again until 1983 when a woman's publishing collective printed her stories as 'The House of the Talking Cat'. She married the New Zealand poet James K. Baxter in 1948. She died in Paekakariki in December 2009.