Authors

Richard Gladwell is an international sailing journalist and photographer who lives in New Zealand. He began sailing when he was ten years old and first wrote about the America's Cup five years later. A Kiwi representative sailor, he competed internationally in dinghies and keelboats for 12 years, sailing with and against some of the current senior members of Emirates Team New Zealand. He has covered the America's Cup and Team New Zealand in its various renditions for the past 35 years. Lone Wolf, his book on New Zealand’s victory in the 2017 America’s Cup was a bestseller.

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Clare Gleeson is a Wellington historian and author. Her first book was Meet me at Begg's: the story of Charles Begg & Co, music and appliance manufacturers and retailers, 1861-1970 and she has published a range of articles on music-making and music retailing in New Zealand including on the Audioculture website. Clare's recent research has focused on Aotearoa's horticultural history and this has led to articles in a range of New Zealand and overseas publications, including New Zealand Gardener.

Alison Glenny’s Antarctic-themed collection of prose poems and fragments, The Farewell Tourist, won the Kathleen Gratton award for poetry and was published by Otago University Press in 2018. In 2019 she was an Ursula Bethell writer in residence at the University of Canterbury, working on a project about Edwardian female mountaineers. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast.

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Ann Gluckman MSc, BA has held numerous positions in education and in community organisations. She was foundation principal of Ngā Tapuwae College and the first woman in New Zealand to be appointed principal of a state co-educational secondary school. Elected to the Council of Massey University, she was also the first lay member on the Middlemore Hospital Ethical Committee and the foundation Jewish co-president of the Auckland Council for Christians and Jews. Awarded an OBE in 1993 for services to education and the community, Ann’s writing on comparative religion, multicultural education and travel has been widely published. She has edited and contributed chapters to a number of books and other publications and was co-author of Ageing Is Attitude: The New Zealand experience (1995). She initiated and edited the first two volumes of Identity and Involvement (1990 and 1993 respectively) and wrote a biography of her mother, Postcards from Tukums: A family detective story (2010). Deb Levy Friedler is the rebbetzin of the Auckland Hebrew Congregation. Born in Auckland, she is the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and has been involved in leadership in Kadimah, Bnei Akiva, Habonim, the Zionist Federation, the Australasian Union of Jewish Students, Shadows of Shoah and LIMMUD NZ. In the wider community Deb has worked and volunteered as a counsellor, educator youth worker, agency manager and project manager/analyst. Lindy Davis is a multimedia print journalist based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has published extensively and is the author of four books, Global Kitchen (New Holland, 2019) Quay to the Cove (New Holland, 2017) and two junior fiction titles, The Golden Scarab and The Golden Scarab’s Secret (Pelican Press, 2013).

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Brannavan Gnanalingam is a novelist and lawyer based in Wellington. His last three novels have all been longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Foundation Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, including the shortlisted Sprigs (2020) and Sodden Downstream (2017). Sprigs also won the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel. He is also a regular Sunday Star-Times columnist and former reviewer, and won a Qantas Media Award as part of the Lumière Reader’s film coverage.

Born in Madrid (Spain) and trained as a scientist, Tatiana's passion for writing goes back for as long as she remembers. Writing stories has always been part of her life. Following her move to New Zealand in her mid thirties, she rediscovered her passion for writing stories, and took several courses in creative writing from the New Zealand Writers College. Tatiana has won the second award of the '1st Letras Latinas short story competition' in 2014 organised by Alac Inc in Auckland, New Zealand, with her story 'A trip to Vienna'. Tatiana also had two mini short stories, 'Farewell' and 'If I went there for a second time', published in English and Spanish in 2018 by Letras Latinas Publishing House. In addition to science, Tatiana has recently started a business as a life coach. In her spare time, Tatiana loves reading as much as she can, spending time with her daughter, catching up with friends, dancing, tramping and travelling.Tatiana lives in Wellington (New Zealand) with her daughter and their lovely Golden Retriever. 'A trip towards the sunset' is her first novel.

Lucy Godoroja has always had an interest in the creative process, whether through the handcrafts of sewing and needlework or jewellery making, to the design of large or small objects. She owns a popular button shop in Newtown, Australia, called ‘All Buttons Great and Small’.

Peter Goes lives in Belgium, where he works as a freelance illustrator. He has also worked as a stage manager and studied animation at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent, Belgium.