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Aaron Smale (Ngāti Porou, Ngā Puhi, Pākehā) is an award-winning freelance investigative journalist and photographer.

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Avis Acres (1910-1994) was a New Zealand artist, writer and illustrator who produced a number of popular children's picture books during the 1950s, as well as a comic strip, 'The Tale of Hutu and Kawa', which appeared weekly in the New Zealand Herald. Her lifelong interest in nature and our fragile environment was reflected in her stories, which were well ahead of their time. In the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, Jill Holt writes, 'Despite their fantasy, the Hutu and Kawa books conveyed an understanding of ecology and a strong conservationist ethos. In Hutu and Kawa find an Island, Acres described the terrible impact of the possum on native trees and birds. In the same book she incorporated traditional Maori knowledge on making the sail for a canoe. To ensure that the details in her books were accurate, she undertook research in museums and libraries, and in the field.' Avis Acres' artwork continues to be appreciated for its nostalgic charm and the beauty of its natural detail.

Pip Adam is a writer, novelist and creative writing teacher living in Wellington. She has published five novels: Everything We Hoped For (2010), I am Working on a Building (2013), The New Animals (2017), Nothing to See (2020), and Audition (2023). The New Animals won the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the 2018 Ockham Book Awards. Her work has appeared widely in publications in Aotearoa and overseas including Sport, Turbine, Hue & Cry, Landfall, Metro, JAAM, Pantograph Punch, Five Dials and Van voor af aan. Adam has written for publications produced in conjunction with exhibitions at Wellington City Gallery and her reviews have appeared in the New Zealand Listener, New Zealand Books and on Radio New Zealand. Bio and image courtesy of Read NZ.

Katharine worked in medical imaging until moving to the glorious Kapiti Coast in Aotearoa, where she spends her days writing, playing taxi to her children and making space for just one more book on overflowing shelves. She's passionate about positive LGBTQ+ representation in literature and genuinely thought everyone secretly liked all genders for an embarrassingly long time. If she's not out mountain biking or hiking with her family, she's often found hiding in the garden, where she accidentally kills more plants than she does characters in her stories.