Authors

Bruce W. Hayward is a retired geologist and marine ecologist based in Auckland. He is a former member of the New Zealand Conservation Authority, former president of the Geological Society of NZ and Honorary Life Member of the NZ Marine Sciences Society and the Geoscience Society of NZ. He is the founder and convenor of the NZ Geopreservation Inventory which documents and seeks greater protection for NZ’s geoheritage features like those highlighted in this book (naturemaps.nz/maps/#/context/Geopreservation-Context/). His wide interests in natural and human history have resulted in twenty-two previous books on topics as diverse as archaeology, the kauri timber and gum industries, New Zealand fossils, volcanoes, building stones and geoconservation, and the popular Out of the Ocean, into the Fire on the geology of northern New Zealand. He is author of AUP titles Volcanoes of Auckland: A Field Guide (2019) and Volcanoes of Auckland: The Essential Guide (2011).

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Relocating in 1967 to Amman, in Jordan, the author worked as a radio programmes producer and freelance journalist contributing Middle East coverage to UPI, BBC, NBC TV & Radio News and later as both cameraman and radio reporter with ABC TV & Radio News of New York. He also acted as media advisor to Prince Hassan of Jordan. In 1990 Tuma joined UNICEF as Director of Information for the Middle East and North Africa, working there until 1997 when he took early retirement and settled with his Kiwi wife in New Zealand.

Amy Head is the author of the novel Rotoroa, and a collection of short stories, Tough, which won the Best First Book Award for Fiction at the New Zealand Book Awards. She is a graduate of the International Institute of Modern Letters, and was Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury in 2020. She lives in Otautahi Christchurch.

I am Emma - a qualified lawyer, overthinker and, since 2018, a Stay-at-Home Mother. We live a very rural life on a beef and sheep farm in New Zealand. When I am not tending to my littles, you will often find me writing; a passion that I have reignited since motherhood, that I have shared with the world via my social media channels (Instagram @Wordsof_EmmaHeaphy and Facebook @WordsofEmmaHeaphy) and that now makes up the pages of my book.

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Matt Heath is a well-known broadcaster, producer, actor, podcaster, TV personality and sports commentator. As well as co-hosting The Matt & Jerry Show on Radio Hauraki and the Daily Bespoke podcast, he is the co-owner of production company Vinewood Motion Graphics. For ten years he wrote a weekly column for the New Zealand Herald. Matt lives in Auckland city and is a father of two.

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Sue Heazlewood, a grandmother of two, says "What I've always wanted - and what I wanted for the children - is what I've created now." I find that the Tails of Tangleby Gardens series with the recipes helps bond children with parents, by reading the stories to young ones and then learning to cook the recipes together from the book.