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Amanda King lives on a farm in Canterbury, New Zealand, and in between cooking for shearing gangs, and looking after her two small children, she runs a successful photographic print business online, called By the Horns. Her art prints are incredibly popular and sell all over the world.

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The late Michael King was one of New Zealand's leading historians. Over three decades he wrote or edited more than 30 books, most of them New Zealand history or biography. He won a wide range of awards for this work, including the New Zealand Book Award for Non-fiction, the Wattie Book of the Year (twice), the Montana Medal for Non-fiction and, in 2003, an inaugural Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. He was a contributor to the prestigious Oxford History of New Zealand and wrote for all five volumes of The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Dr King taught or held fellowships at seven universities in New Zealand and other countries, including Georgetown University in Washington DC, where he was Visiting Professor of New Zealand Studies. He was tragically killed in a car accident in 2004.

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Laughton King is a retired psychologist whose understanding of what is commonly called ‘dyslexia’ comes from his 70-plus years as a ‘dyslexic’ person, and from 35 years as a psychologist working with children experiencing learning difficulties.

Ruby was born in the United Kingdom. As a young woman, her desire to explore the world took her backpacking across many of the harder-to-travel countries. Following her love of adventure, Ruby emigrated with her young adoptive family to New Zealand in 2008. Unfortunately, since her daughter's diagnosis, the lack of awareness of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) means that every ministry has failed to support the family unit. Generally, individuals and their family's needs are ignored; they are shoehorned into services that are coercive and abusive. Ruby has written this memoir in a measure of desperation, to give families such as hers, who just seem to be invisible, a voice. Her aim is to highlight the inequities in policy and services for those living with FASD in New Zealand. Ruby holds an honours degree in social work and a diploma in mental health and addiction studies.

Laughton King is a retired psychologist whose understanding of what is commonly called ‘dyslexia’ comes from his 70-plus years as a ‘dyslexic’ person, and from 35 years as a psychologist working with children experiencing learning difficulties.

Jonathan King’s comics have featured online and in anthologies. King is a prominent filmmaker whose debut feature Black Sheep remains one of New Zealand’s biggest-selling feature films. Its international awards include the Audience Award at the Gérardmer Fantastic Film Festival, the Silver Raven at the Brussels Fantastic Film Festival and the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. King co-wrote, produced and directed a film adaptation of New Zealand children’s classic Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee, starring Sam Neill, which was released worldwide. The Inkberg Enigma is his first children’s book.

Emily King is an internationally recognised thought leader in food systems change. Environmental lawyer turned advocate, Emily has more than a decade’s experience working in and researching food systems. It’s a journey that’s taken her from investigating seed practices in Cuba to running a climate change adaptation forum focusing on resilient urban food in Germany, hunting out ways to change the food system. Emily created Spira in 2017 to help more businesses and organisations throughout Aotearoa contribute to positive fixes in the food system. She’s helped councils, industry, government and numerous community groups come up with leading answers to our most pressing food systems challenges.

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