Authors

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.

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Bob Jones is one of New Zealand's best known and best selling authors. A public identity for over 50 years and a highly successful businessman, he has been involved in public life, the arts, charitable activities and written over 20 fiction and non-fiction books that have consistently been amongst the most popular published in New Zealand.

Jenny Robin Jones is a writer of many years’ standing. Born in Wellington, where she now lives, Jenny spent her formative years in England, returning to New Zealand as a young adult to begin her working life as a teacher. She was for many years executive director of the New Zealand Society of Authors, served as its representative on the board of Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) and was a long-term chair of the selection panel for the CLL awards. She also chaired Peppercorn Press, publisher of the quarterly review journal New Zealand Books. Love America is her fourth book.