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Cassie Hart (Kai Tahu) is a writer of speculative fiction. Her short stories have appeared in several award-winning anthologies, and she was a finalist for both the Sir Julius Vogel and Australian Shadow Awards. In 2018, Cassie took part in the Te Papa Tupu writing programme. A fan of coffee, cats and zombies, Cassie lives in Taranaki. Butcherbird is her first novel.
Alyse Boaz is published in educational books. Her first children’s picture book 'Royal Blue' was published in 2021. 'Sammy the Rooster' is the second in a planned series of picture books. Samantha Hart is a talented Wellington student with a passion for the arts. Involved with both performing arts as a circus performer and illustrative artwork, she was keen to take the opportunity of illustrating an ecological children’s book. She has brought a young eye to 'Sammy the Rooster', the first children’s picture book she has illustrated.
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Siobhan Harvey is the author of the poetry collection Lost Relatives (2011) and a book of literary interviews, Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand writers in discussion (2010), as well as editor of Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand poems about animals (2009). Her poems have been published in magazines and anthologies at home and internationally. In recent years she has been runner-up in Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize (Aus), the Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition and Landfall Essay Prize, and nominated for the Pushcart Prize (US). The Poetry Archive (UK) holds a Poet's Page' devoted to her work.