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Don Jessen is the author of five previous best-selling books, based on New Zealand stories and collections: Three Wheeling Downunder; Retro Caravans - Vantastic Kiwi Collections; A Great Indoors for a Great Outdoors - the Story of Liteweight Caravans; Retro and Vintage Boats - Kiwi Portraits, and Vintage and Iconic Aircraft - New Zealand Collections. In 2017 he extended his work to include Australian and New Zealand stories, co-authoring with his wife Marilyn, Vintage and Retro Caravans Downunder, Classic Car and Caravan Combos Downunder and My Mini Could Tow That - Teardrops and Tiny Caravans. Don and Marilyn also released RV There Yet? A guide to owning and using a recreational vehicle in New Zealand.

Alex Jeune was born in Wellington in 1986. He grew up in Otaki and Levin, and attended Levin’s Waiopehu College. He moved to Lower Hutt in 2008 to study at Victoria University of Wellington. He graduated with a BA in Chinese and Sociology. He has had his poetry published in Valley Micropress, in the Horowhenua Writer’s Group anthology, Iridescent Blue, and in broadsheet: new new zealand poetry. In 2020, he appeared in the HeadworX anthology Three Poets, with Marion Rego and Margaret Jeune. He has read his poetry at the Titirangi Poets in Auckland and at “Poets to the People” Cafe in Kāpiti and at the Fringe Bar Open Mic in Wellington City. He is a lay preacher in the Hutt City Uniting Congregational Parish.

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Sara Jewell is a freelance writer, substitute teacher, licensed lay worship leader, and the author of two collections of essays for adults. A former city girl, she lives on seventy-two acres along the River Philip in northern Nova Scotia with her husband, her mother, several pets, and a flock of chickens. The birds and critters in this book often show up when she walks through the field and woods behind her house. For more, check out www.sarajewell.ca. Charlotte Manning is an illustrator from Northumberland in the UK. She's currently living and working in British Columbia, Canada. She loves being outdoors and drawing what she can see in nature. She works with mixed media and pochoir. Her debut book The Lost Horse was published in the UK in 2022. Find more of her art at www.charlottemanning.art

Jennifer Taylor works closely with the Edith Collier Trust Collection on a daily basis as Curator of Collections at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua Whanganui. She has managed projects to photograph and catalogue Edith's collection and archive, as well as this publication. Jennifer has curated a number of exhibitions of Edith's work at Sarjeant on the Quay, regularly responds to research enquiries or viewing requests, and presents public talks about Edith and her legacy. In 2017 she led development of the Sarjeant Gallery's award-winning collection portal Explore the Collection, enabling online access to the Edith Collier Trust Collection.

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