Authors

Associate Professor Craig Hassed is an internationally recognised mindfulness expert. He is co-author of the two top-ranked online mindfulness courses in the world, was the founding president of Meditation Australia, and has received the medal of the Order of Australia for services to medicine. Dr Stephen McKenzie is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne’s School of Psychological Sciences with over thirty years of experience in researching and teaching a broad range of areas.

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David Hastings is a retired journalist, historian and language teacher. He has written four books:

Vanessa is a successfully published author of a number of books for children. Her most recent is When Dad Came Home. She also works as a librarian at a primary school, writes reviews of books, and is on the management committee of a children's literature organisation. Kanapu is a former teacher, licensed translator and interpreter and is currently a director of Whenua Oho in Rotorua. Scott is a well-known illustrator, designer and artist based on the Kapiti Coast.

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Dinah Hawken is one of New Zealand's most celebrated poets. She was born in Hawera in 1943 and now lives in Paekakariki. Sea-light is her ninth collection of poetry.

In this dazzling first collection, acclaimed Wellington poet and Canterbury farm-girl Rebecca Hawkes takes a generous bite from the excesses of earthly flesh - first 'Meat', then 'Lovers'. 'Meat' is a coming of age in which pony clubs, orphaned lambs and dairy-shed delirium are infused with playful menace and queer longings. Between bottle-fed care and killing-shed floors, the farm is a heady setting for love and death. In 'Lovers', the poet casts a wry eye over romance, from youthful sapphic infatuation to seething beastliness. Sentimental intensity is anchored by an introspective comic streak, in which 'the stars are watching us / and boy howdy are they judgemental'. This collection of queasy hungers offers a feast of explosive mince & cheese pies, accusatory crackling, lab-grown meat and beetroot tempeh burger patties, all washed down with bloody milk or apple-mush moonshine. It teems with sensuous life, from domesticated beasts to the undulating mysteries of eels, as Hawkes explores uneasy relationships with our animals and with each other. Tender and brutal, seductive and repulsive, Meat Lovers introduces a compelling new mode of hardcore pastoral.

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Bel Hawkins (Author) Bel is a published poet and writer, and the voice of one of the most beloved spaces in the SYSCA universe. She's won leading awards in both advertising and media, and spent the majority of her 20s living around the world, working on projects that speak directly to worn-out women, helping people phoenix and making them feel less alone in the world.