Authors

Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and manuscript assessor in Ōtepoti / Dunedin. She edits at Flash Frontier: An adventure in short fiction and Best Small Fictions, and is reviews editor at Landfall and founder of National Flash Fiction Day. Her latest book is the other side of better (Ad Hoc, 2021). Marco Sonzogni is a widely published scholar, translator, poet and editor. He is a reader in translation studies at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, and director of the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation. Recently he co-edited More Favourable Waters: Aotearoa poets respond to Dante’s Purgatory.

Dallas Elvy was born in Blenheim and spent innumerable weekends and holidays at Whites Bay with his grandfather, Vic Logan. After leaving home Dallas joined the air force, then became a public servant. On retirement he was appointed secretary of the Wellington branch of the Government Superannuitants Association, and he is currently on the board of that organisation. Dallas lives in Wellington and is married with two adult children and a grandson.

Luke Elworthy was born in India and comes from a family of publishers and farmers. Growing up in Wellington, he was educated at Church of England boarding school Christ's College, in Christchurch, and spent much of his school holidays at controversial Auckland cult, Centrepoint. He has worked in marketing, publicity and editorial roles with book publishers in New Zealand, Australia, the UK and the Netherlands, and he has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University in Wellington. He lives with his family just outside Blenheim.

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JOHANNA EMENEY (1974-), a Cambridge graduate with a postgraduate diploma in education, is a tutor of creative writing at Massey University, Auckland, where she gained her PhD. She has published two books of poetry, Apple and Tree (Cape Catley, 2011) and Family History (Ma karo Press, 2017), and an academic book, The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities (Ibidem Press, 2018). She was the editor of the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2020. She co-facilitates

Johanna Emeney is a Cambridge graduate with a postgraduate diploma in education and is currently a tutor of creative writing at Massey University, Auckland, where she gained her PhD. She has published two books of poetry, Apple and tree (Cape Catley, 2011) and Family History (Ma karo Press, 2017), and an academic book, The Rise of Autobiographical Medical Poetry and the Medical Humanities (Ibidem Press, 2018).

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SAIGE ENGLAND is a Christchurch writer. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington. In her previous career as a journalist Saige won a number of Qantas Media Awards and the New Zealand Media Peace Award. Her poetry has been published in a number of journals and anthologies. As a journalist she has worked in various conflict zones including Romania, the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East. Her journalism and feature articles have been published in the Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and the NZ Listener. Saige also spent some years reporting on claims to the Waitangi Tribunal. Saige's short fiction has been anthologised by Penguin New Zealand. The Seasonwife is her first novel.

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