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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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JESSICA HOWLAND KANY was born on Manhattan Island (NYC) and now resides on another extraordinary island: Rakiura Stewart Island, New Zealand. She has lived there since 2002, editing the Stewart Island News (SIN) since 2005. Between island lives, she graduated from Washington University in St Louis, Missouri; lived in San Francisco; wrote for the Jackson Hole News in Jackson, Wyoming; and worked at the Lahaina Library in Maui, Hawaii. On Rakiura she has worked at the pub, the post office/flight centre and is “desk crew” for her fisherman husband. Other hats include librarian, rat trapper, trail runner, “Foveaux foodie”, artichoke enthusiast, and running a myths & legends club for kids. Her writing has appeared in Running Times, North & South, New Zealand Geographic, New Zealand Gardener, Sky & Telescope, Wilderness Magazine, and The Island Review. Besides boogie-boarding with her boys, her favourite pastime is splitting wood.

Professor Girol Karacaoglu is the Head of the School of Government at Victoria University of Wellington. He arrived at Victoria University of Wellington from the New Zealand Treasury, where he was Chief Economist. Before this, he was Chief Executive of the Cooperative Bank of New Zealand for nine years. His academic fields of specialisation are in public policy, monetary and financial economics, international finance, econometrics, corporate accounting, and finance. Robert H. Wade is professor of global political economy at the London School of Economics. Son of a New Zealand diplomat, educated at Wellington College, Otago University, Victoria University, and Sussex University, he has worked at the Institute of Development Studies (Sussex University), the World Bank, Princeton University, MIT, and Brown University; and has done field work in Pitcairn Island, Italy, India, South Korea, Taiwan and inside the World Bank. His book Governing the market (1990, 2004) won the American Political Science Association's Best Book or Article in Political Economy, 1989-1991. He was awarded the Leontief Prize in Economics in 2008.

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David Karena-Holmes has been a tutor of Maori grammar at schools and institutions in New Zealand since the 1980s. This is his third book on the subject. He contributes a fortnightly column on te reo in the Nelson Mail., and his poetry and other writings have been widely published. David lives in Whakatu/Nelson.