Authors

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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Andy Jones is a performer, writer, and former member of the CODCO comedy troupe. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he co-founded the Resource Centre for the Arts at the L.S.P.U. Hall, co-writing, acting in, and directing many original productions.Among his numerous stage and film credits, Jones starred in, co-wrote, and co-directed the 1986 feature film, The Adventures of Faustus Bidgood. He has written five critically acclaimed one-man comedy shows, as well as Albert, a one-act play for one man and a budgie bird; The Lady with the Lapdog(a radical theatrical adaptation of Anton Chekhov's short story); and the children's plays The Queen of Paradise's Garden, Jack Meets the Cat (co-written with the Sheila's Brush collective) and Jack-Five-Oh (co-written with Philip Dinn). Jones also writes children's books based on Newfoundland Folktales; Jack and Mary in the Land of Thieves, won the Winterset award in 2013. "Katie Brosnan is an artist and graphic designer known for her lively and engaging illustrations. She graduated with distinction from the Cambridge School of Arts Book Illustration Program, and in 2019 published two picture books that she both wrote and illustrated: Keith Among the Pigeons, which was long-listed for the Klaus Flugge Prize honoring the most exciting young illustrators in the UK; and Gut Garden, which received the 2020 North Somerset Teachers' Book Award (Information Book Category) and was long-listed for the UKs School Library Association Award for Information Books (age 8-12) and . The illustrations for Barefoot Helen and the Giants are her first collaboration with a Canadian press; they are unlikely to be her last. Katie lives in Northamptonshire, UK, with her husband and a cat named Jethro. "

Ruby Jones is a young Wellington-based artist and writer whose messages of hope and kindness captured the zeitgeist and gained worldwide attention after the March 2019 Christchurch terrorist attacks, when she shared her illustration featuring two women embracing, penned with the words 'This is your home and you should have been safe here.' A few days on from the attacks, Ruby was asked to illustrate a cover for Time magazine. Since then, her work has been shared widely and has appeared online with Buzzfeed, i-D, Vogue, Marie Claire and Nadia magazine. All Of This Is For You is her first book and a bestseller that has been translated into many languages around the world.

Anouska Jones is a cat-loving book editor, who has worked in publishing for twenty-five years. She compiled the quotes from a range of sources, while her own cat kept close watch from her vantage point on Anouska’s desk.