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Nicole (Ngati Kahungunu ki te Wairoa, Ngati Pahauwera) is a novice writer, avid home-baker and proud aunt. She lives in Poneke and works at a local high school teaching English, Social Studies and tikanga Maori. Nicole is also involved in pastoral care and facilitates Kapa Haka. Nicole has collaborated with other writers to host 'Coffee with Brownies', which are open mic events for people of colour to share their work in safe spaces. She co-hosted 'Rhyme Time', a regional youth event, with Poetry in Motion, to encourage a diverse range of youth to perform their incredible poetry. Nicole has work published by Overland, Capital Magazine, Blackmail Press and The Spinoff Atea and credits her courageous students with inspiring her to write.
Bestselling NZ author Danielle Hawkins lives on a sheep and beef farm near Otorohanga with her husband and two children. She works part-time as a large animal vet, and writes when the kids are at school and she's not required for farming purposes. She is a keen gardener, an intermittently keen cook and an avid reader. Her other talents include memorising poetry, making bread and zapping flies with an electric fly swat. She tends to exaggerate to improve a story, with the result that her husband believes almost nothing she says. Look for @DanielleHawkinsauthor on Facebook.
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Michael Hawton is a registered psychologist and former school teacher, and has worked in the area of child and family psychology for over 30 years. He has published two previous books on child behaviour management and brings a clear, no-nonsense approach to managing anxiety in children and tweens.
Michael Hawton is a registered psychologist and former school teacher, and has worked in the area of child and family psychology for over 30 years. He has published two previous books on child behaviour management and brings a clear, no-nonsense approach to managing anxiety in children and tweens.
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Growing up in Gore within sight of the Hokonuis, Ron Hay developed an early love of the hills and the wide open spaces. He became enthusiastically involved in tramping and climbing while doing postgraduate study in English literature at Otago University. Some years of secondary teaching followed, allowing generous amounts of holiday time for trips into the valleys and mountains of the Southern Alps. Ron then did a theology degree and entered the Anglican ministry. He was vicar of Temuka and then Sumner-Redcliffs in Christchurch before taking early retirement in order to devote time to writing. His first book, Finding the Forgotten God, won the Ashton Wyllie Book Award in 2015. Ron is a member of the New Zealand Alpine Club and has contributed articles to the NZ Alpine Journal and to Wilderness magazine. He is married to Liz and they have three children and seven grandchildren. They now live in Castle Hill Village surrounded by the peaks of the Torlesse and Craigieburn Ranges.
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