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Tessa Keenan (Te Ātiawa) is from Taranaki and is now based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. She would like to thank her whānau, partner, friends and tūpuna for the constant inspiration and support during the writing of her chapbook. Her poems have appeared in Starling, a fine line, Poetry Aotearoa Yearbook and Pūhia. romesh dissanayake is a writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work has appeared in The Spinoff, The Pantograph Punch, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space and A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (edited by Paula Morris and Alison Wong). His first novel, When I open the shop, was the winner of the 2022 Modern Letters Fiction Prize and is forthcoming from THWUP in 2024. Sadie Lawrence is a second-year university student of creative writing and media studies. Like Human Girls / all we have is noise was written from ages seventeen to nineteen. Her autism screening was inconclusive.

Lauren Keenan (Te Atiawa ki Taranaki) started writing after having children, to give herself something to think about that wasn't baby food, sleep routines, and a pile of laundry so big it ought to have its own gravitational pull. She has eight short stories published in three short story collections: Huia 11 (2015), Huia 12 (2017) and Huia 13 (2019). In 2017 she won the Pikihuia Best Short Story award, and in 2019 was a finalist in the Pikihuia Best Emerging Writer category. Lauren has a Master of Arts in History, and has worked for both central and local government in New Zealand and the UK. She calls Wellington home. Lauren's #lifegoal is to see 50 countries before she's 50, although, admittedly, she still has a way to go. The 52 Week Project is her first full-length book.For more on Lauren see laurenkeenanwriter.com, or follow her on Twitter at @Lauren_M_Keenan

Lauren Keenan (Te Āti Awa ki Taranaki) is a writer of creative non-fiction, novels, short stories and popular psychology. Lauren was a winner at the 2017 Pikihuia Awards for Māori writers and a finalist in the 2019 awards. She was also a participant in Te Papa Tupu mentoring programme. Her short stories have appeared in Huia Short Stories collections in 2015, 2017 and 2019. In 2020 her book The 52 Week Project: How I Fixed My Life by Trying a New Thing Every Week for a Year was published, and in 2022 her children’s novel Amorangi and Millie’s Trip Through Time was published. It was a finalist in the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and longlisted in the ARA Historical Novel Prize. It also won the 2023 Book Lovers Award. Lauren has a Master of Arts in Taranaki Māori History.

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Jana Keir lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with her two young children, husband, and Devon Rex cat. Jana grew up on a dairy farm in Northland, which gave her a love of the outdoors but also a thirst for adventure. While living in London, she reconnected with her Dutch family after several decades; both online and in real life. Inspired by her travels to Amsterdam, the city became one of the locations of 'The Girl from Oceania'.

Sir Kenneth James Keith ONZ KBE KC was born in 1937 and educated at Auckland Grammar School, the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington and Harvard Law School. He was a faculty member of Victoria University from 1962 to 1964 and from 1966 to 1991, and served in the New Zealand Department of External Affairs during the early 1960s, and as a member of the United Nations Secretariat from 1968 to 1970.From 1996 to 2003, he was a Judge of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in London, and was subsequently one of the inaugural appointments to the new Supreme Court of New Zealand, which replaced the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in 2004. He was elected to the International Court of Justice in November 2005, serving a nine-year term from 2006 to 2015.In the 1988 Queen's Birthday Honours, Kenneth Keith was appointed a Knight-Companion of the Order of the British Empire, for services to law reform and legal education, and in the 2007 Queen's Birthday Honours he was appointed a Member of the Order of New Zealand.

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MICHAEL KEITH is a highly experienced editor and writer who has worked in the area of school curriculum and museums for most of his career. He is the former head of the writing team at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and now runs his own consultancy, Shearwater Associates. CHRIS SZEKELY has held the statutory position of Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library since 2007. He is a founding member of the Māori Information Professionals’ Association Te Rōpū Whakahau and a Fellow of the Library & Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa. He is also an award-winning children’s author with works published in te reo Māori and English.

Arlo Kelly is a young author from the Kāpiti Coast, New Zealand. He has been a passionate writer for many years and most of his stories have been inspired by the natural world around him. He has grown up living by the sea and especially loves the wild east coast of New Zealand, which was the setting for this story. He has spent many summers there, exploring the coastline with all its natural geographical wonders and amazing sea life.