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The talented Jane Arthur has a number of strings to her bow in Aotearoa's publishing world - she is a writer, a poet, an editor, a reviewer and a bookseller, and is a founding editor of children's literature website The Sapling. Her debut poetry collection, Craven (VUP), won the 2020 Jessie Mackay Prize (MitoQ Best First Book of Poetry) at the Ockham NZ Book Awards and her second collection, Calamities (THWUP) was published in 2023. In 2020, she was awarded an Emerging Writers Residency from the Michael King Writers Centre, and she used that dedicated time to write Brown Bird, her first novel for children. With PRHNZ's author Catherine Robertson, Jane owns and manages the award-winning Good Books bookstore in Wellington. Photo credit Jane Arthur Tabitha Arthur Photography.
Jake Arthur is the author of A Lack of Good Sons, included in the NZ Listener’s Best Poetry of 2023. His poems have appeared in journals including Sport, Mimicry, Food Court, Turbine, Return Flight and Sweet Mammalian. He has a PhD in Renaissance literature and translation from Oxford University.
Nick Ascroft is the author of many poetry collections with Te Herenga Waka University Press. He has nearly won the Kathleen Grattan Prize four times, the most anyone has nearly won it. Living in Wellington, he is a public servant advising on digital publishing (and indoor soccer). He will be on the New Zealand team taking on Australia in the 2022 Scrabble Trans-Tasman.
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Brett Ashley is a former executive with Woolworths NZ Ltd, who chalked up more than 47 years in the retail industry in both New Zealand and Australia. A butcher by trade, Brett started his meat apprenticeship with Foodtown Supermarkets. He owned and operated a private meat business for five years in the late 1980s, before re-joining the corporate retailer and working there for another 27 years. Brett made a very successful career working in the grocery industry, completing over 42 years in total within the Woolworths NZ Ltd. group, with the last 18 years as part of the senior executive team in general manager roles. He survived and conducted countless management restructures, including navigating and orientating over 15 different managing directors, before retiring in October 2020. His life story is a gripping tale of a cheeky little boy who grew up in a dysfunctional family from South Auckland, New Zealand. A boy who overcame adversity to understand that the greatest asset we have is the power of our minds. ‘What we truly believe, we can truly achieve.’ His dynamic leadership journey led to an epiphany: that we can create an environment where people can be at their best every day.
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Jennifer Ashton is an Auckland-based technical writer and editor. In 2012 she completed a PhD in history at the University of Auckland, which was published by Auckland University Press in 2015 as At the Margin of Empire: John Webster and Hokianga, 1841-1900.
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