Born in New Caledonia, Titaua Peu is Tahitian. She studied philosophy in Paris and returned to Tahiti in 2002 to work as a journalist. Her first novel Mutismes, published in 2003, makes her the youngest Tahitian author to be published. Her second novel, Pina, was published in 2016. It was translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman (Restless Books, 2022) and awarded two prizes: the Prix Eugène-Dabit for the populist novel in 2017 and the French Voices Grand Prize in Fiction in 2019.

Her writing focuses on the Polynesian society, the impact of colonisation and the place of women. Titaua Peu is one of the main French-speaking voices in Pacific literature. Through her works, she expresses the realities of her country, far from illusory clichés.