Authors

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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John Evan Harris is an Auckland writer, journalist, and former rock musician. For many years he was a TV producer, and founded Greenstone TV. His interest in the Maungatapu Murders (which form the background of The Physician's Gun) was sparked when he produced the award-winning historical re-enactment series Epitaph for TVNZ.

Stefen Harris was born in Tokoroa and grew up in Rotorua with his Te Arawa Nanna. He is a frontline police officer having served for over 30 years in Wellington, Christchurch and Nelson. He has been a frontline uniform officer for the whole of his career and in 2017 was awarded the Commissioner's Commendation for Bravery. Stef Harris filmed his debut novel, The Waikikamukau Conspiracy, as a first time film director in 2006. Retitled as The Waimate Conspiracy the film went on to win four best film awards around the world including Dreamspeakers Canada, DigiSPAA Screen Producers of Australia, Wairoa Maori Film Festival and the New Zealand Screen Directors Guild, Best Digital Feature Film 2007. Harris was awarded the 2009 Air New Zealand Scolarship in Film and was mentored by New Zealand film director Martin Campbell on the Boston set of the Mel Gibson film, Edge of Darkness. The scholarship experience in Boston was eventually instrumental in the creation of both DOUBLE JEOPARDY and a new film project, Blue Moon. Following on from the Boston film scholarship, an early draft of DOUBLE JEOPARDY was written as part of the Hagley Writers Institute programme. Harris was mentored by Morrin Rout and Frankie Macmillan for the year long course writing a chapter a week to meet the course completion deadline. He graduated in second place with a completed first draft. Harris' arthouse feature film, Blue Moon, was shot over one week on an iPhone 7 and went on to win numerus best film awards in festivals around the world including in Texas, New York, Oslo, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Sydney. Blue Moon was offically selected for the prestigious Cannes Antipodes Film Festival and screened in Cannes in May 2022. Stef Harris is married and lives in Motueka. He has four adult children and eight grandchildren. He has a lifelong interest in martial arts and is a member of Seido karate. DOUBLE JEOPARDY is Stef Harris's third published novel.

Dr Russ Harris is a world-renowned trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). As a GP he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, which led to a total career change. He now works in two different, yet complementary roles, as a therapist and a coach.