Authors

Pei Te Hurinui (1898-1976), Ngati Maniapoto leader, interpreter, land officer, writer, translator, genealogist, was bilingual and published extensively in both English and Maori. He translated several of Shakespeare's plays and Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam into Maori and collaborated with Sir Apirana Ngata, on the first three volumes of Nga Moteatea. His first and main interest was in recording and compiling the Tainui traditions published in Nga Iwi o Tainui.

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David Harrison Jones grew up in Tadmore and then Picton, where he did a boatbuilding apprenticeship before becoming a commercial fisherman. He worked out of Wakatahuri, Stewart Island and Havelock and settled permanently at Wakatahuri where he became involved in shipbreaking with the Wells brothers. In later years he turned to mussel farming and trans-Tasman voyaging, making trips to Australia, New Caledonia and Vanuatu as well as extensively cruising the coastline of New Zealand in his 42ft fishing vessel Kelvin.

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Australian New Zealander Sacha Jones is a former ballerina and dance teacher with a PhD in 'the battle of the sexes' (feminist theory and practice) who now writes tragicomic memoir, creative non-fiction and stand-up comedy that hopes to challenge regressive gender stereotypes while making people of all walks, talks and chromosomes laugh at the many absurdities of modern life.

Linley Jones lives in Half Moon Bay, Auckland, close enough to the marina to keep an eye on the family yacht Campari but with enough land (even though some of it is ‘hillside’) to satisfy the absolute need for gardening. While Les plants native trees (twelve kauri during COVID-19 lockdown) Linley adds colour with Vireya, hibiscus and orchids. Whether she is sailing or gardening, her mind is always on the next piece of writing. Her short stories have been placed first in the Graeme Lay Short Story Award twice (2011, 2013), the Page and Blackmore/Top of the South Short Story Competition (2015), Heartland Short Story Competition (2005) and Franklin National Short Fiction (2019). Most have placed high in national competitions. She has been published in Takahe and Horizons. In 2007, Linley Jones was awarded a NZSA Mentorship funded by Creative NZ, to work with David Hill, and in 2014, she won a place on the NZSA Assessment Programme with Jillian Sullivan. Her earlier publications include: Net Navigator, Macmillan, Australia (2007) – the history of sea navigation Making Waves, Scholastic NZ (2008) – A family sailing trip from NZ to Tonga turns from a great adventure into a hideous nightmare On the Edge, AM Publishing (2013) –junior fiction adventure set in NZ, tramping, sailing abseiling and dealing with Russian orchid thieves Apple Tea and Camel Pee, AM Publishing (2015) – a selection of short stories for adults Sophie in a Pickle, AM Publishing (2017) – a children’s picture book.

Tim Jones was awarded the NZSA Janet Frame Memorial Award for Literature in 2010. He co-edited Voyagers: Science Fiction Poetry from New Zealand, which won the 2010 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Collected Work. His recent books include poetry collection New Sea Land (Makaro Press, 2016) and climate fiction novella Where We Land (The Cuba Press, 2019). He is a climate change activist, helping to work on a just transition to a low-carbon future. Tim lives in Wellington.

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Glenn Jones is based in Auckland, New Zealand. After a career of more than 20 years in graphic design, Glenn moved on to develop his own ongoing creative projects locally and overseas. Having grown up in the 1970s and 80s, Glenn is inspired by nostalgic pop culture, kiwiana and more recently by his young family. Well practised in reading bedtime stories, he decided it was time to add his own content to the family bookshelf. Glenn has never liked carrots.

Alison Jones is an educational researcher and a Professor in Te Puna Wananga, the School of Maori and Indigenous Education at the University of Auckland. Her first book with Kuni Kaa Jenkins, He Korero: Words Between Us - First Maori-Pakeha Conversations on Paper (Huia, 2011), won the Nga Kupu Ora Maori Book Awards, the PANZ Book Design Award, and the Best Book in Higher Education Publishing (Copyright Licensing New Zealand) in 2012. Tuai: A Traveller in Two Worlds, co-authored with Kuni Kaa Jenkins, won best illustrated nonfiction book at the 2018 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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