Authors

Tim Higham’s love of wild places and writing has taken him around the world, from our southern most national parks and nature reserves, to Antarctica, and through Asia and the Pacific with the United Nations Environment Programme. More recently he’s championed the work of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park and Predator Free 2050. Tim has written on science and environmental matters for broadcast and print media, winning a Qantas Media Award, the SATPAC Prize for science journalism and the New Zealand Association of Scientists’ Journalism Prize. He lives in his off-grid home on Aotea Great Barrier Island.

Peter Hill has worked as a professional hunter for the New Zealand Forest Service, a commercial fisherman, fencing contractor, possum trapper and a member of the New Zealand Professional Fishing Guides Association. Today he is one of the North Island’s most in-demand fly-fishing guides, taking people from all over the world through the beautiful wilderness rivers of the Central North Island. He lives with his family in Galatea, Bay of Plenty.

MARTIN HILL is an award-winning designer and artist who has worked in the UK, Kenya, Australia, and has lived in New Zealand since 1974. He became an environmental artist in 1992. PHILIPPA JONES studied English and Art History at The University of Auckland and Victoria University. She has worked as a weaver and writer. She has two adult children. Hill and Jones have collaborated to make land art since they met as climbers in 1994. Hill’s photographs of their ephemeral sculptures have been exhibited in solo exhibitions in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, China, and Europe. Their work has been awarded at Pingyao International Photography Festival China, Arte Laguna Venice, and received a FAPA international award. In 2007 a book of their sculptures, Earth to Earth, was published internationally. They live and work in Wānaka, New Zealand.

Steven Loveridge is a historian whose research focuses on governance, security intelligence and war and society. Richard S. Hill is the author of four books on the history of policing in New Zealand and two on Crown- Maori relations in the twentieth century (including State Authority, Indigenous Autonomy and Maori and the State, Victoria University Press, 2004, 2009).

No biography

Gregory Hill is a former principal player in the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Following his career in music, he indulged his secret passion for long-distance train travel, resulting in this epic journey.

Les Hill is a retired school teacher. He lives on a two-acre block close to Hokitika with panoramic views of the Southern Alps and the Tasman Sea. He enjoys life in the outdoors - trout fishing, whitebaiting, sea fishing and hunting. He always carries a camera. He is the author or co-author of seven previous, highly acclaimed books on trout fishing including The Artful Science of Trout Fishing and A Stroll Through Brown Trout Country. Les was a regular contributor to Fish and Game magazine and has had numerous articles and photographs published in books and magazines both in NZ and abroad.

No biography

No biography

David Hill is a reviewer, fiction writer, playwright and children’s writer. Born in Napier, he spent fourteen years teaching before writing full-time. His many published books range from studies on poetry, to teenage fiction, for which he has received numerous prizes. His first young adult novel won the 1994 Times Educational Supplement Award for Special Needs. He won the 2002 Children's Literature Foundation Gaelyn Gordon Award for a Much-Loved Book, the 2003 LIANZA Esther Glen Medal, the 2013 NZ Post Junior Fiction Award, and the 2013 LIANZA Librarian’s Choice Award. Hill is available to visit schools through the Writers in Schools programme, as well as lead Professional Development sessions for teachers. Bio and photograph courtesy of Read NZ.

No biography