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Sarah and Otis Frizzell are the dynamic duo behind The Lucky Taco. The pair fell in love with tacos and the iconic Californian taco trucks while traveling in Mexico and LA. The passionate cooks trained with one of the best chefs in Mexico and returned to establish one of Aotearoa's very first gourmet food trucks. Since 2013 they have been treating Kiwis to tasty and authentic tacos from their truck, Lucky. Their product range is stocked at food retailers throughout Aotearoa. They have won over 30 awards, including Winner of the Lewisham Most Outstanding Street Food Award (2016, 2018, 2021), Supreme Champion at the Outstanding Food Producers NZ Awards, and World Champion at the World Hot Sauce Awards. Sarah hails from the UK and was an award-winning art director in Aotearoa's top advertising agencies. Otis is a former hip-hop performer and tattoo artist. He has worked in TV and radio broadcasting, and is a well-known practising artist.

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Alan Froggatt is chairman of the Kapiti Mana branch of Forest & Bird, a member of the Ornithological Society of NZ, and is involved in a range of conservation initiatives on the Kapiti Coast. He writes on birding for a conservation newsletter, and addresses schools and public gatherings on conservation and birding issues. He has had wide birding experience throughout New Zealand, and has been featured in numerous international publications including National Geographic.

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Roderick Fry is a prize-winning New Zealand designer and essayist, who has worked in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. From 1999, he retraced the route taken by his maternal grandfather across China during the Second World War to rescue his family in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong, beginning a project to write a historically accurate novel based on their incredible story. He lives in Paris and is founder and creative director of sustainable design company Moaroom.

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Tim Fulton grew up on a sheep and crop farm at West Eyreton in North Canterbury. Inspired by family farming stories, as a journalist he has written much about the transformation of farming since the early 2000, when agriculture first started to emerge from being a so-called ‘sunset industry’. Tim loves telling rural stories, helping readers to understand the joys and complexities of life on the land.

Kim Fulton is a poet and fiction writer from Auckland, New Zealand. Her writing has appeared literary journals in New Zealand and overseas including Landfall, Mimicry, Poetry New Zealand, Scattered Feathers, The Unnecessary Invention of Punctuation, Hue and Cry, JAAM, takahe, The Pangolin Review, Nga Kupu Waikato: An anthology of Waikato poetry, and Stasis Journal. She has a Master's degree in Creative Writing from Massey University. Her thesis looked at how contemporary elegiac poets use indirect approaches to loss, such as humour and irony, to avoid sentimentality. She explores these approaches in her own work.

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