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Flora Feltham is a writer and weaver from Poneke. She has an MA from the
Flora Feltham is a writer and weaver from Pōneke. She has an MA from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington. Her work has appeared in Turbine Kapohau, ArtNow and The Guardian. Bad Archive is her first book.
Rachel J Fenton is a writer, graphic artist and anthologist, living in Oamaru and a curator at the Janet Frame House. She has won fiction competitions in Aotearoa and overseas, including the Laura Solomon NZSA Cuba Press Prize 2022, was shortlisted for The Royal Society of New Zealand Manhire Prize and is a Pushcart nominee. She is co-editor with Sarah Laing and Indira Neville of Three Words: An Anthology of Aotearoa/NZ Women's Comics, and as Rae Joyce, she is an award-winning graphic poet.
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Larissa Ferenchuk loves all things magical and whimsical. She lives with her husband, three children and one very lovely Little Grey Rabbit. Prue Pittock started in advertising and illustrated and designed album covers. Since then she has illustrated 8 picture books . In 2020 she was shortlisted for the CBCA Eve Pownall Award.
Arts graduate, former sole editor for Paul Hamlyn Ltd (Auckland), then William Collins Ltd (Auckland), author of six New Zealand natural history titles.
Susie Ferguson was born in Scotland and is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster in New Zealand. After graduating from The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama and the University of the Arts London, she became a war correspondent, reporting and presenting from around the world - most notably the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. She emigrated to New Zealand in 2009, and for eight years was co-host of Radio NZ's top-rating show, Morning Report. She has also made radio documentaries and podcasts including RNZ's The Unthinkable and Undercurrent: Misinformation in Aotearoa. Susie now hosts RNZ's Saturday Morning, is an ambassador for Endometriosis NZ, and lives in Wellington with her family.
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Sharon Fergusson, author of short story 'Because', awarded an honourable mention in NZ Writers College 2021 Annual Short Story Competition, and creator/producer of children's songs and videos under the name 'The Singing Pipi', writes and illustrates stories from her home studio based high on a hill in Leigh, New Zealand. Influenced by cherished memories of Doctor Suess books, Sunday Stories on Radio, and borrowing as many books as possible from the local library, Sharon's vivid imagination and quirky sense of humour unite to create stories intended to inspire a shared love of books in our youngest readers.
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