Authors

Roderick Fry is a prize-winning New Zealand designer and essayist, who has worked in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. From 1999, he retraced the route taken by his maternal grandfather across China during the Second World War to rescue his family in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, beginning a project to write a historically accurate novel based on their incredible story. He lives in Paris and is founder and creative director of sustainable design company Moaroom.

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Tim Fulton grew up on a sheep and crop farm at West Eyreton in North Canterbury. Inspired by family farming stories, as a journalist he has written much about the transformation of farming since the early 2000, when agriculture first started to emerge from being a so-called ‘sunset industry’. Tim loves telling rural stories, helping readers to understand the joys and complexities of life on the land.

Kim Fulton is a poet and fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand. Her writing has appeared literary journals in New Zealand and overseas including Landfall, Mimicry, Poetry New Zealand, Scattered Feathers, The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation, Hue and Cry, JAAM, takahe, The Pangolin Review, Nga Kupu Waikato: An anthology of Waikato poetry, and Stasis Journal. She has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Massey University. Her thesis looked at how contemporary elegiac poets use indirect approaches to loss, such as humour and irony, to avoid sentimentality. She explores these approaches in her own work.

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KATIE FURZE is a children's author from Aotearoa New Zealand who loves science and nature and has a master's degree in creative writing. Katie writes children's non-fiction and fiction including picture books, short stories, articles, plays, early readers, and novels

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Jess Galatola is a teacher and mother to two boys. She has a passion for helping young people to heal and build resilience through literature.  Jenni Barrand is a children’s art teacher who lives on the Northern Beaches of Sydney with a husband, two kids, one cat and two guinea pigs.

Len Gale spent a lifetime committed to arts and crafts. After a varied career as a railway engineer, high-school teacher and artist, he devoted his later years to sharing and documenting aspects of his work, including in four books: Greenstone Carving, Wood Carving, Creative Metal and Technology Basics. Len passed away in 2016 at the age of 89.

Rhian Gallagher’s first poetry book Salt Water Creek (Enitharmon Press, 2003) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for First Collection. In 2007 Gallagher won a Canterbury History Foundation Award, which led to the publication of her book Feeling for Daylight: The Photographs of Jack Adamson (South Canterbury Museum, 2010). She also received the 2008 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award. Gallagher’s Shift (AUP, 2011) won the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Award for Poetry. In 2018, she held the University of Otago Robert Burns Fellowship.