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Jade Kake (Nga puhi - Nga ti Hau me Te Parawhau, Te Whakato hea, Te Arawa) is director and founder of Matakohe Architecture and Urbanism and has a Master of Architecture degree. She is also a writer of fiction and non-fiction. Jade has written Rebuilding the Kāinga – Lessons from Te Ao Hurihuri, and chapters in collections about architecture and design and has also written for Stuff, The Spinoff, The Pantograph Punch, ArchitectureNOW and Metro. She has won awards for architectural writing, received the Emerging Māori Writer’s Residency at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2019, and received the Copyright Licensing New Zealand and New Zealand Society of Authors Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa Writers’ Award in 2021. In 2020, she was a participant on Te Papa Tupu writers’ mentoring programme.
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Gregory Kan is a writer and developer based in Poneke/Wellington. His first collection of poetry, This Paper Boat, was shortlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for poetry in 2017. Under Glass, his second collection, was longlisted for the award in 2020. He was the 2017 Grimshaw Sargeson Fellow.
Gregory Kan’s work has featured in literary journals such as Atlanta Review, Cordite, Jacket, Landfall, New Zealand Listener, SPORTand Best New Zealand Poems, as well as art exhibitions, journals and catalogues. His first book of poetry, This Paper Boat, was shortlisted in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
Brodie Kane is a podcast host for The Girls Uninterrupted and Kiwi Yarns, as well a producer, television presenter, MC and keynote speaker. An award-winning journalist, Brodie has loved every minute of her 17 years in broadcasting, across The Hits Breakfast, TVNZ Breakfast, Seven Sharp, Fair Go and Q+A, Newstalk ZB and RadioLive. She recently starred in The Traitors and Dancing with the Stars. She is a surf lifesaver, ultra-marathon runner, and ex-territorial for the NZ Army. Raised in Christchurch, Brodie now lives in Auckland with her mum and hero, Jo, and loves talking (it's sometimes hard to stop her).
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