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Fergus Barrowman has been the Publisher of Victoria University of Wellington Press since 1985, and founded Sport along with Nigel Cox, Elizabeth Knox and Damien Wilkins in 1988. He edited the Picador Book of Contemporary New Zealand Fiction in 1996.
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Becs Bartells is a designer, illustrator and innovator who was born in Putaruru, on New Zealand’s North Island. She spent part of her youth growing up in Tasmania before returning to New Zealand and has lived in Auckland for the past 20 years. With a Degree with Honours in Industrial Design and a background in character animation, furniture design and graphic design, Becs has seen her work exhibited in Milan and bought by a New Zealand PM, been involved with several start-up businesses and won awards for innovation. While she currently works in design, Becs has recently become an author with her first book, Go Girl, Go!, which she both wrote and illustrated and which is about women who have succeeded in interesting careers. It is aimed at young girls and written in rhyme, to show them that they too can achieve whatever they set their minds to. In her free time Becs enjoys painting, playing squash, dancing in the dark, socialising with friends and travel. As a professional entrepreneur and someone who is always interested in new experiences and getting creative, one of her proudest achievements was starting an eco-coffin business which won her 2 prestigious design awards. As far as the future goes, Becs is hoping to continue to be as creative as possible, while writing and illustrating more books for children and perhaps inspiring the coming generations to grow, dream and succeed in life.
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Following a successful career spanning the legal, publishing and financial services industries, Gina embraced the opportunity to unleash her quirky sense of fun with these creative, perceptive and humorous stories on everyday family life. When not penning the latest adventures of her beloved character, Lulu La Ru, Gina loves nothing more than being active (hiking, biking, skiing and wind-surfing), satisfying her addiction to yoghurt and dark chocolate (no, not together!) and obsessing over the spreadsheets and lists she endlessly creates in an attempt to keep her life and creative projects in perfect harmony (albeit with varying degrees of success). An intrepid traveller and true lover of nature, Gina is always planning a new adventure and will use any opportunity to escape and seek inspiration from the world around her. At home in Auckland, New Zealand, Gina leads a dynamic family life, sharing her journey with her highly energetic husband two equally vivacious step-daughters. A chilled-out Labradoodle rounds out the household, providing some calm amid the hustle and bustle.
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Jesse O (Author) Jesse O is the pseudonym for award-winning poet and author Jessica Le Bas. Her first poetry collection, Incognito (AUP 2007), won the Best First Book of Poetry Award at the 2008 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. A second collection, Walking to Africa (AUP 2009), which explored adolescent mental illness, was a finalist in the 2010 Ashton Wylie Book Awards. Her first novel for children, Staying Home (Puffin 2010) won a Storylines Notable Junior Fiction Award in 2011. In 2019, she won the prestigious Sarah Broome Poetry Prize for a sequence of poems described by the judge, Toronto Poet Laureate Anne Michaels, as 'alive with detail acutely observed'. Jessica Le Bas divides her time between Nelson, New Zealand and Rarotonga. Toby Morris (Illustrator) Toby Morris is an award-winning illustrator, comic artist and author of the successful non-fiction comic series The Side Eye on the Spinoff and The Pencilsword on RNZ. He has written several children's books including Capsicum, Capsi Go, The Day The Costumes Stuck, Don't Puke On Your Dad and the graphic novel Te Tiriti O Waitangi and developed artwork for musicians including The Beths, Beastwars, Neil and Liam Finn, Ladyhawke and Phoenix Foundation, and diverse brands including the Edmonds Baking Powder box! In 2020, his animated illustration collaborations with scientist Siouxsie Wiles explaining the Covid-19 pandemic were viewed and shared all over the world, leading to an ongoing gig with the WHO. He lives in Auckland.
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David Batchelor is an urban planner, designer and researcher. He holds a PhD in Architecture from Victoria University of Wellington and conducts research about urban and heritage governance. He was the founder of the regional festival Wellington Heritage Week. Bill McKay is a Senior Lecturer in architecture and planning at the University of Auckland. The author of two books on New Zealand architecture, including a history of state housing, he has contributed to many other publications, and provides regular media commentary on architecture and urban design issues.
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