Authors

Mary Elizabeth Heenan, (Liz) born in Lumsden, New Zealand, raised in a farming community at Five Rivers, schooled at Southland Girls’ High, educated at Otago University, Dunedin, graduating with a B.A. Psychology, and Diploma in Tertiary Teaching. Taught at Otago Polytechnic and Completed Maxine Alterio’s writing Class. Career mainly in teaching, health services and Community Probation Services. Now retired and living near Oamaru. This is her first publication.

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Colin Heinz has been an active tramper and climber for over fifty years. He grew up in Cobden on the South Island's west coast. Its lofty mountains, lush native bush, and stories about gold prospectors and other explorers enticed him into the backcountry and fostered complementary interests in history and geology. Colin was educated at Greymouth High School, Victoria University in Wellington, and the University of Otago Medical School in Dunedin, which he graduated from in 1972. After two years as an intern in Auckland and two years in general practice in Northland and the United Kingdom he became a specialist anaesthetist and worked in Christchurch for 40 years until his retirement. Tramping was a great way for him to unwind from work and introduce his children to the bush and mountains that became so familiar to him when he was growing up. His interest in history was nurtured by family stories going back three generations in Westland and Canterbury and further back to Australia and Western Europe.

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Dr John Hellemans is a well know Christchurch Sports Medicine Practitioner, athlete, coach and author. He completed his medical training in his native Holland before immigrating to New Zealand in 1978. John has combined his medical practice with an active sporting and coaching career. He won 6 national triathlon titles in the 80’s and 8 World Championships Age-Group titles in subsequent years. John has coached several athletes to World Championship titles and he has been involved in four Olympic campaigns. John has published widely in the scientific and popular literature. His memoir ‘Never, Ever Give Up?’ was published in 2018. With his background in sports medicine and coaching John has developed a special interest in the difference between exercise for health and training for performance. He is intrigued by the ability of elite athletes to push themselves beyond their physiological boundaries. His research has involved self-experimentation, which has included participating in extreme endurance events. In 2002 he completed the grueling Mizone Endurazone Multisport Race which covered the length of New Zealand. At the age of 60 (2013) he competed in the Hawaii Ironman and two years ago (2018) he took part in the Tour Aotearoa, a 3000km mountain bike odyssey, also covering the length of New Zealand.

Jenna Heller grew up in the United States, but has lived her entire adult life in Aotearoa New Zealand in Diamond Harbour, Banks Peninsula, and New Brighton, Christchurch. She was runner-up for the 2021 Caselberg International Poetry Prize, and has had poems shortlisted for the NZSA Heritage Awards and the takahē Monica Taylor Poetry Prize. Her short fiction has won National Flash Fiction Day and the Australian CLA Best Prose Prize.

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MISS NICKY (Ngati Koata, Ngati Kuia, Ngati Toa) is a lyrical gangsta and musical wizard for tamariki everywhere! Born in Aotearoa, Nicolla (Miss Nicky) is an award-winning songwriter, performer, YouTuber, children's author and passionate promoter of te reo Maori, diversity and cultural pride. Waiata mai, tamariki ma! YouTube: Miss Nicky Says, STORY HEMI-MOREHOUSE (Ngati Toa Rangatira, Ngati Koata, Ngati Kuia) is an award-winning illustrator, and creator of boss Maori stories and characters. She's all about representation and finding ways to tell more honest stories where everyone is included. She celebrates culture, art and whanau through her work, and only answers to Momo the cat.

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