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Diana Halstead graduated from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1963, from the 1970s she has exhibited in various galleries including New Vision, Petar James Gallery and Artis Gallery. She currently resides in the Coromandel.
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Jordan Hamel is a Pōneke-based poet and performer. He was the 2018 New Zealand Poetry Slam champion. He uses poetry and performance to create awareness and discourse about environmental and political issues. He is the co-editor of Stasis Journal and his debut poetry collection Everyone is everyone except you was published by Dead Bird Books in 2022. Rebecca Hawkes is a poet/painter from Canterbury, living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Her chapbook ‘Softcore coldsores’ was published in AUP New Poets 5 in 2019. Her first full-length poetry collection, Meat Lovers, was recently unleashed by Auckland University Press. Rebecca edits Sweet Mammalian and is a founding member of popstar poets’ posse Show Ponies. Erik Kennedy is the author of Another Beautiful Day Indoors (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2022) and There’s No Place Like the Internet in Springtime (Victoria University Press, 2018), which was shortlisted for best book of poems at the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. He lives in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Essa Ranapiri (Ngāti Wehi Wehi / Ngāti Takatāpui / Clan Gunn) is a poet from Kirikiriroa. They are part of puku.riri, a local writing group. Their book ransack was published by Victoria University Press in 2019. Give the land back. It’s the only way to fix this mess. They will write until they’re dead. And after that, sing.
MADISON HAMILL is based in Wellington. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her work has appeared in The Spinoff, Sweet Mammalian, Turbine Kapohau and Pantograph Punch.
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Joanna grew up in rural NZ. She holds a BA degree in English and a Diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language (Dip TESOL). Teaching English to children in rural Japan was a highlight of her career. The Japanese aesthetic influences her creative work. Her first book 'Welcome to the World' received an honourable mention in the Purple Dragonfly Awards 2020.
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DESCRIPTION Catherine Hammond is the director of collections and research at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. She was formerly Hocken Librarian at the University of Otago Te Whare Wānanga o Ōtākou, and before that head of documentary heritage at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum and research library manager at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Recent book projects include Archives of Emotion (Auckland Museum, 2021) and, for Auckland Art Gallery, Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys (co-published with Auckland University Press, 2019), John Nixon: Abstraction (2018), Lisa Reihana’s Emissaries (2018) and In Pursuit of Venus (2015), Frances Hodgkins: Forgotten Still Life (2015) and Modern Paints Aotearoa (2014). She was managing editor of Reading Room: A Journal of Art and Culture (2007–18) and honorary secretary of the Colin McCahon Research & Publication Trust (2014–19). She has an MA in library and information studies from Victoria University of Wellington and a BA in art history from the University of Auckland.