Authors

Susanne Gervay is a celebrated Australian children’s author who received the Lifetime Social Justice Literature Award for Children’s Literature. Marjorie Crosby-Fairall is a freelance illustrator. An Australia/US citizen, her first picture book won the CBCA Eve Pownall Award.

Highly respected author Fred van Gessel has been recording the bird sounds for more than 40 years, building up a huge knowledge of the subject during that time.    

Golriz Ghahraman made history as the first refugee to be sworn in as a member of New Zealand's parliament in 2017. Iranian-born, Golriz arrived in New Zealand with her parents seeking asylum as a nine-year-old. She studied human rights law at Oxford and has practiced as a lawyer in New Zealand and for in United Nations tribunals in Africa, The Hague, and Cambodia. Her work has included trials of leaders for genocide and war crimes, restoring communities after war and human rights atrocities, particularly empowering women engaged in peace and justice initiatives. 

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Michael Giacon is a poet, songwriter and performer. Born and raised in Auckland, he is from a large Pākehā-Italian family. In 2016 he graduated with a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from AUT, and the same year won the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems. He was the NZPS/a fine line Featured Poet summer 2021, and has been published in various journals including Landfall and the Poetry New Zealand Yearbook.

Surprised by Hope is the third book of poetry by Dunedin writer John Gibb, an English honours graduate of Otago University and former crime reporter at the Whanganui Chronicle, who recently retired after more than thirty years as a science and university reporter at the Otago Daily Times.

The young writers and artists published in Toitoi are between the ages of 5-13. Their work reflects the cultures and experiences of life in New Zealand and provides an original and authentic voice that other young people can connect to and be inspired by.

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Dr George Gibbs is a retired university lecturer, from the School of Biological Sciences at Victoria University. He obtained a PhD in insect ecology from the University of Sydney and pursued a career researching butterflies, moths and weta. He has also researched, written and lectured extensively about New Zealand's historical biogeography. He has published four books on New Zealand insects, numerous scientific papers, and the now classic volume on New Zealand biogeography 'Ghosts of Gondwana' (Potton & Burton, 2006, revised and expanded in 2016). He is G. V. Hudson's grandson.

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