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Sloane Hong (she/her) is a Korean tauiwi illustrator, comic artist and tattooer rumoured to lurk somewhere deep within the agonising, suburban sprawl of Aotearoa. The LGBTQIA+ journal, bad apple, claims that she was a founding member of their publication and helped develop their creative direction. Meanwhile, further evidence of her existence has also previously been uncovered in The Spinoff, The New York Times, Death in the Mouth: Original Horror from the Margins and Spoiled Fruit: Queer Poetry from Aotearoa.

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Peter Hooper (1919–1991): was a West Coast poet, novelist, teacher, bookseller and conservationist. In a writing career that spanned the decades following World War II until his death in 1991, his reputation as a poet has tended to depend on poems published in slim volumes no longer easily accessible. The exception was Earth Marriage (Fragments III, 1972), a selection of previously published and new work with photographs of the West Coast, which sold two thousand copies within a year. A rather meagre Selected Poems was published by John McIndoe in 1977. Between 1977 and his death in 1991 Hooper published a trilogy of novels: A Song in the Forest (1979); People of the Long Water (1985); and Time and the Forest (1986) which won the New Zealand Book Award for fiction. A collection of short stories, The Goat Paddock and other stories appeared in 1981. Hooper also wrote and published extensively on conservation and environmental subjects.

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Shalane Hopkins is an author, creative strategist, and life coach based in Otago, New Zealand. After walking 3,000 km along Te Araroa, she carried the lessons of resilience, authenticity, and growth into her writing and coaching. Her work empowers individuals to overcome challenges, align with their authentic selves, and take courageous steps toward meaningful change. One Step at a Time is her debut memoir.

Jenny Boyack and John Hornblow have been involved with pilgrimages for many years and believe that, in a broad sense, we are always 'on pilgrimage'. For over a decade they have planned and led a range of pilgrimages within Aotearoa New Zealand, and overseas in Israel and Palestine; Italy (Franciscan); England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland (Celtic); and Greece and Turkey. They have also been involved with St George's College in Jerusalem and the Anglican Centre in Rome, both centres for pilgrimage. In 2015 John spoke at the Second Global Conference on Sacred Journeys held at Mansfield College, Oxford University, England. In 2017 they walked 150 km of the Camino Santiago de Compostela in Spain. John is a retired Priest in All Saints' Anglican Parish, Palmerston North, a former Deputy Mayor of Palmerston North, and in his working life, director of a human resource company. Jenny is organist and choir director at All Saints, and is now retired from a career in music and teacher education. Jenny and John are married and have seven adult children and twelve grandchildren.

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