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Kirsty Gunn is an internationally published novelist and short story writer whose recent work has appeared in Landfall 244, The NZ Listener and Newsroom. She has received multiple prizes and awards, including Book of the Year at the 2013 New Zealand Post Awards for her novel The Big Music (Faber, 2012) and her fiction is widely anthologised, broadcast and adapted into film, theatre and a range of media.

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Melissa is a scientist who loves to take photos of birds and plants. Claudia is a singer-songwriter who specialises in kids music. Together, they've been promoting Toutouwai for Bird of the Year. They'd like to share some of the interesting things they've found out about New Zealand's robin.

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Dr Jason Gurney (Ngapuhi) is the Director of the Cancer and Chronic Conditions (C3) Research Group, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health at the University of Otago (Wellington campus). He has worked in the public health sector in epidemiology for the past 15 years. In 2018 he was awarded the Health Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Maori Emerging Leader Fellowship, and in 2023 was part of a team awarded the HRC Liley Medal for research into the causes of rheumatic fever. The Twisted Chain is his first book.

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