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DEREK GRZELEWSKI is the author of The Trout Diaries, The Trout Bohemia and The Trout Dreams. He is also a regular contributor to high-end magazines, including New Zealand Geographic, Australian Geographic, Smithsonian, Flylife and Fly Fisherman. A professional fly-fishing guide and internationally qualified casting instructor, he divides his time between New Zealand and Colorado. www.DerekGrzelewski.com
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Mexican-born poet and novelist Rogelio Guedea is the award-winning author of more than 40 books. His poetry collection Kora was awarded the prestigious Spanish Premio Adonáis de Poesía in 2008, and in 2013 his novel, El crimen de Los Tepames (Mondadori), was one of the top five best-selling novels in Mexico. His most recent poetry collections, both with English translations by Roger Hickin, are Si no te hubieras ido / If only you hadn’t gone (2014) and Punctuation (2018). He was the coordinator of the University of Otago Spanish Programme and Associate Professor of Spanish from 2008–2016. Rogelio is currently based in Wellington and is the director of The New Zealand Hispanic Press. Roger Hickin has published translations of a number of Latin American poets, among them the Nicaraguans Ernesto Cardenal, Blanca Castellón, Carlos Martínez Rivas and Joaquín Pasos, as well as two previous collections by Rogelio Guedea, Si no te hubieras ido / If only you hadn’t gone and Punctuation.
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Kirsty Gunn is an internationally published novelist and short story writer whose recent work has appeared in Landfall 244, The NZ Listener and Newsroom. She has received multiple prizes and awards, including Book of the Year at the 2013 New Zealand Post Awards for her novel The Big Music (Faber, 2012) and her fiction is widely anthologised, broadcast and adapted into film, theatre and a range of media.
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Melissa is a scientist who loves to take photos of birds and plants. Claudia is a singer-songwriter who specialises in kids music. Together, they've been promoting Toutouwai for Bird of the Year. They'd like to share some of the interesting things they've found out about New Zealand's robin.