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Olivia Aroha Giles has a BA in Applied Arts, Art and Design and an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Applied Arts in Creative Writing. She is also undertaking a master's in education about neurodiverse learning challenges. She is a tutor on the New Zealand Certificate in Skills for Living for Supported Learners, teaching life skills for supported learners. Olivia is an avid reader and writer. She writes novels and children's books that reflect contemporary Maori life, and she has previously published children's stories, poetry, and a fiction trilogy.

Maria Gill specialise in writing for children and regularly visits schools and libraries around the country promoting New Zealand books. Author of over 55 books.

Jenny Gillam is a photographer, writer and exhibiting multimedia artist. She is a senior lecturer and programme leader in Massey University's Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her projects are often produced collaboratively with other artists or with experts from another field. She lives in Wellington. Eugene Hansen (Maniapoto) is a senior lecturer at Massey University's Whiti o Rehua, School of Art, Wellington. Focusing on co-authoring and working collaboratively, he has a long-term multimedia art practice exhibiting nationally and internationally. Eugene attributes his interest in collaboration to growing up in the remote rural Maori community featured in this book, where cultural production was modelled as an inherently collaborative embracing of matauranga Maori. He lives in Wellington.

Polly Gillespie is one half of New Zealand's longest-running radio show team, the other half being her (now ex) husband, Grant Kereama. In various iterations, they've been on the air together since 1991. Polly was also one of the most popular columnists for Woman's Day for almost two decades, with her 'Dear Polly' agony aunt column.

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Freddie Gillies was born in Auckland where he completed his studies at the University of Auckland. Currently living in London, Freddie writes for an acclaimed journal and is the author of The Big Bike Trip, an account of his round-the-world cycle-tour that took place in 2017. Not limited to writing, Freddie has played in a number of different bands over the years and his song, 'Wander' (Tracing Spheres) reached number 1 on bFM in 2016. Freddie loves the outdoors, cycling, running, writing and travelling.

Sharon Giltrow has worked with children for all of her career, and is now an educator working with young children with Developmental Language Disorder. Arielle Li has been passionate about creating art from a young age, and has been pursuing illustration as a career since 2019. She enjoys long walks at the beach, chasing her cats around the house and practising Taekwondo.

A self-taught photographic artist, Victoria Ginn has always embraced the individual and individuality as the purveyor of the inner 'invisible' the Self, as symbol and archetype. Utilizing natural or found light, her creative focus evolved from black/white portraiture to encompass the intertwined contexts of landscape and culture. In her photographic essays done from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s, Victoria explored the South Pacific islands, Australia, New Zealand, South East Asia, Central Asia and Southern Europe to document art-performance-religious expressions of these regions. Her work has been published worldwide, and her major essay, The Spirited Earth - Dance, Myth and Ritual from South Asia to the South Pacific, was published by leading fine-art publisher Rizzoli International, New York. Victoria was born of the artist Ellinore Ginn in the house of her grandmother, renowned opera singer and teacher Anna Ginn, in Wellington. She now resides in a restored 1890s former hotel in South Taranaki, New Zealand.

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