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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.

Lynley Hargreaves is a science writer who lives on the Te Tai Poutini West Coast of the South Island, with her glaciologist partner and two children. After gaining a mathematical physics degree, Lynley spent a year working for a United States physics magazine and then completed a journalism diploma. She was employed by the Royal Society Te Aparangi for many years and now works in communications at Forest & Bird. She has spent much of her life exploring New Zealand's mountains and continues to try to protect our mountain environments from climate change. This is her first book.

Patrick Harlow is an automotive historian with a fascination for unique New Zealand produced cars. This is his third book on this subject. When he is not writing books, he is doing research for a monthly column that he writes for New Zealand Classic Car Magazine called 'Kits and Pieces.'

Michael Harlow is one of New Zealand’s leading poets. He has published twelve books of poetry, including Cassandra’s Daughter (2005, 2006), The Tram Conductor’s Blue Cap (a finalist in the 2010 New Zealand Book Awards), Sweeping the Courtyard, Selected Poems (2014), Heart Absolutely I Can (2014), Nothing For It But To Sing (2016, winner of the Otago University Press Kathleen Grattan Award) and The Moon in a Bowl of Water (2019). Take a Risk, Trust Your Language, Make a Poem (1986) won the PEN/NZ award for Best First Book of Prose. Residencies he has held include the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship and the Robert Burns Fellowship. In 2014 he was awarded the Lauris Edmond Memorial Prize for Distinguished Contribution to New Zealand Poetry, and in 2018 he received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry.

GLYN HARPER is author of many books, including Acts of Valour (with Colin Richardson), Johnny Enzed, and Images of War: New Zealand and the First World War in Photographs. His most recent titles include The Battle for North Africa and For King and Other Countries, part of the First World War Centenary History Project. He is Professor of War Studies at Massey University and was Massey Project Manager of the New Zealand and the First World War Centenary History Project.

Anne Harre has studied music, literature, publishing and creative writing, and was awarded an NZSA Hachette mentorship for the manuscript of The Leaning Man. She works now as a school librarian, but has also been a music teacher, bookseller, freelance editor and reviewer, and editor for the New Zealand Poetry Society anthology. She has also worked for the New Zealand Book Council and as a trustee on the Randell Cottage Writers Trust. Anne lives in Wellington and The Leaning Man is her first book.

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