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Originally from Timaru where she grew up in a large working-class family, Trisha Hanifin has lived most of her adult life in Auckland. She has worked in adult education in a range of community, workplace and vocational organisations, specialising in adult literacy and foundation studies, developing programmes, teaching resources and professional development for tutors. Currently, she is a lecturer in bridging education at Unitec. A graduate of the Masters of Creative Writing programme at AUT (2010). Her writing has won several awards and been published in a number of literary journals and anthologies including Landfall, Bonsai: Best small stories in Aotearoa New Zealand, Flash Frontier and Turbine. In 2019 the unpublished manuscript of The Time Lizard's Archaeologist was awarded second place in the Ashton Wylie Mind Body Spirit awards. It is her first novel.

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Dave Hansford has reported science and environment stories for more than 25 years. Formerly, he worked as a press photographer on community and metro papers - notably The Dominion - and took up writing and film work in 2002. His multi-award-winning work has appeared in NZ Geographic, The Listener, North & South, NZ Business, Wilderness, Forest & Bird and The Spinoff as well as in newspapers throughout New Zealand and abroad. In 2016, Dave published his first book, Protecting Paradise, in which he examined contemporary myths around 1080 from the perspective of scientific evidence. In 2017, Dave was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for services to the environment.

Rhonda Hapi-Smith followed her father and siblings into the prison service at the age of 30 and worked for 20 years as a prison officer, Control and Restraint Instructor, and member of the Riot Squad at Hawkes Bay Regional (Mangaroa) Prison. In her later career she transferred to Rimutaka Prison and worked among some of New Zealand's most dangerous inmates before leaving Corrections in 2017. Many times as she walked the prison floors, she was writing this book in her head.

Mel Harding-Shaw is a paranormal romance and urban fantasy writer from Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Her debut novel City of Souls won Agent's Choice in the RWNZ Great Beginnings Contest. She's also a widely published award-winning writer of short speculative fiction as Melanie Harding-Shaw and has published five books under that name: the Censored City trilogy of near-future novelettes, a short story collection Alt-ernate, and a witchy urban fantasy novella Against the Grain. Mel won the award for Services to Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror in the 2020 Sir Julius Vogel Awards. You can find her at www.melaniehardingshaw.com and on social media.