Authors

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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Tony Fernando is a practicing psychiatrist, mindfulness and sleep specialist in Auckland. He obtained his medical degree from the University of the Philippines and his psychiatry and sleep training at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a senior lecturer and multi-awarded teacher in psychological medicine at the University of Auckland, and has been incorporating the Buddha's teachings into his own life and work as a doctor for the past 20 years. Tony has also been ordained as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar.

Charles Ferrall is an associate professor at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. Among his books are

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Nyria has enjoyed reading since she joined the library at age seven and eventually began writing her own short stories. In her teenage years she found fantasy authors, Anne McCaffrey, David Eddings, sci fi author Isaac Asimov and the Discworld Series of Terry Pratchett. She was hooked! Her main genre is speculative fiction and fantasy, but she has also written some romance books. Her home is in New Zealand where she enjoys the sunshine and beautiful countryside which help to inspire the themes of her novels.

Jess Fiebig is a Christchurch-based poet whose work has featured in Best New Zealand Poems 2018, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook 2018 and 2019, Landfall, Turbine, Kapohau and takahē. She was runner-up in the 2019 Sarah Broom Poetry Prize.

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