Authors

Susan Holt is a bubbly and passionate actress and author living in Porirua, New Zealand. After studying linguistics, she followed her dream, moved to Sydney and complete a two year acting course. During that sojourn, she discovered a talent for writing.

Sharon Holt is a children's writer, publisher and creator of books and resources in te reo Maori. Several of her books have won or been shortlisted for awards, and her Te Reo Singalong series won its category in both Nga Tohu Reo Maori / Maori Language Awards in 2013 and the CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards in 2015.

Lilla Nicholas-Holt is a New Zealand author who has self-published three novels; her latest, Soldier Sailor Lover Slave published under her maiden name, E F Holt. She has also self-published a collection of children's stories, which she invites you to view on her website picketybooks.com. In her teenage years she wrote limericks with dark humour in birthday cards for friends and family, which delivered a few laughs. The author grew up on a beautiful sheep farm in the far north of NZ, enjoying all the wonderful experiences and freedom of the great outdoors. Apart from enjoying her love of writing, she has dabbled in artistic painting, completing portraits for family and friends, as well as creating "quiet books" for her grandchildren. The concept of reincarnation fascinates her. She has read books written by Dr. Brian Weiss, Dr. Ian Stevenson, Edgar Cayce, and Shakti Gawain, but her favourite and most influential are the Seth Books written by Jane Roberts. Lilla is responsible for three adult children and four beautiful grandchildren.

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Sharon Holt is a children's writer, publisher and creator of books and resources in te reo Maori. Several of her books have won or been shortlisted for awards, and her Te Reo Singalong series won its category in both Nga Tohu Reo Maori / Maori Language Awards in 2013 and the CLNZ Educational Publishing Awards in 2015.

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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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