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Emma Barnes studied at the University of Canterbury and lives in Aro Valley, Wellington. Their poetry has been widely published for more than a decade in journals including Landfall, Turbine | Kapohau, Cordite and Best New Zealand Poems. They are currently co-editing with Chris Tse an anthology of LGBTQIA+ and takatapui writing from Aotearoa New Zealand for Auckland University Press.

Felicity Barnes is a senior lecturer in history at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. She is the author of numerous journal articles and New Zealand's London: A Colony and its Metropolis (Auckland University Press, 2012).

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The Hautapu whānau are passionate advocates for Ronald McDonald House Charities and have spoken at several of their fundraisers, as well as Camp Quality New Zealand, and national conferences for both the New Zealand Blood Service and Psychosocial Oncology New Zealand. In 2014 Quinn Hautapu was the National Ambassador for the Child Cancer Foundation.

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"Sarah Jane Barnett is an Aotearoa writer and editor. Her poetry, essays, interviews and reviews have been published widely in Aotearoa journals and magazines, as well as in Australia and the US. Her debut poetry collection A Man Runs into a Woman was a finalist in the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards. Her second collection WORK was published in October 2015. You can find her at: sarahjanebarnett.net"

Cassandra Barnett is writer and artist of Raukawa, Ngati Huri and Pakeha descent. She writes poetry, essays and short fiction about cultural and ecological futures. She worked as an art theorist and lecturer (fine arts/critical and contextual studies) for 15 years at institutions including Wintec (Hamilton), Unitec (including the short-lived Awatoru programme, Auckland), and Massey University (Wellington). She is currently Pouako/Educator at Te Whare Taonga o Waikato Waikato Museum. She was a founding member of the publishing collective Taraheke, and believes deeply in the power of art and word to bring transformation. Kura Te Waru-Rewiri (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu, Ngati Rangi, Ngati Kauwhata) studied at the Ilam School of Fine Arts and at teachers' training college, and then taught art in schools, tertiary institutions, universities and whare wananga, and was one of the first Maori appointments to Elam School of Fine Arts in 1993. Her work is held in collections in both Aotearoa New Zealand and overseas and she has been a key contributor to contemporary Maori exhibitions both in New Zealand and abroad. She is the chair of the Mangaiti Marae Trust, a board member of Te Runanga o Whaingaroa and an arts director on the Toi Ngapuhi Board.

Shaun Barnett developed a passion for mountains and tramping as a teenager living in Hawke's Bay. Since then he's tramped extensively throughout New Zealand, including a piecemeal traverse of Ka Tiritiri o te Moana/The Southern Alps. Based in Wellington, Shaun works as a writer, editor, photographer and guide. Shaun is a former editor of Wilderness magazine, and the Federated Mountain Club's Backcountry/FMC Bulletin, and the author of ten books. His titles include: 'Classic Tramping in New Zealand'; 'Shelter from the Storm,The Story of New Zealand's Backcountry Huts'; 'Tramping, A New Zealand History';' Day Walks in New Zealand' and the anthology 'Across the Pass, A Collection of New Zealand Tramping Writing'. Geographx is a Wellington-based cartographic design and mapping company who built a reputation for visualising New Zealand's wild terrain in innovative and meaningful ways. The company was started by Roger Smith and his award-winning maps have featured in a wide range of publications over the last two decades.

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