Authors

Helen Lloyd is a qualified art teacher with a visual art and art history degree and a Master’s degree in museum and gallery education. She has 20 years’ experience of teaching art to children of all ages in schools, museums and galleries in the United Kingdom, Russia and New Zealand. Author of the popular New Zealand Art Activity Book and many online art resources, she is committed to developing inspiring creative learning experiences for children of all ages. Pippa Keel is an award-winning illustration designer, with an honour’s degree in illustration and a huge love of the great outdoors! From her small studio in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Pippa collaborates with a variety of clients. During the warmer months, she travels around Aotearoa to hand-paint murals.

Dr Bob Lloyd is from Australia, he came to New Zealand in 2002 after having worked for the Australian Coo-operative Research Centre for Renewable Energy (ACRE), based at Murdoch University in Perth. He has also worked on renewable energy systems in China and the Pacific Islands and taught at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. His research interests at Otago University, where he was the Director of Energy Studies and Associate Professor in the Physics Department until he retired in 2014, were in energy conservation in residential housing and energy management including world energy resources and peak oil. His PhD from Flinders University in South Australia was completed in the field of experimental atomic physics. He currently is doing climate change consultancy for Pacific countries.

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Born in West Auckland, Douglas Lloyd Jenkins grew up on the North Shore before moving to the central city; in time to observe the first wave of demolition. It was here that he grew to love local architecture and design which fuelled a career as an award-winning writer of non-fiction on the subjects of art, design and architecture. He has had columns in the New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Listener and HOME magazine. His book At Home: A Century of New Zealand Design was the Montana Book Awards Non-Fiction Winner in 2004 and The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design since 1940, which he co-authored, was shortlisted for the same prize in 2011. His most recent book Beach Life won the PANZ Best Illustrated Book Award in 2017. Douglas now lives in South Auckland with his dog. He has written widely on contemporary masculinity and LGBTQI+ subjects. Shelter is his first novel.

Charlotte Lobb was born and raised on a lifestyle block just out of Hamilton, in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Charlotte kept busy in her earlier years with an array of interests and talents ranging from ballroom dancing, violin, piano and singing to being a member of the New Zealand Shooting Team and High Performance Academy for air-rifle shooting. After leaving school, Charlotte went on to complete a Bachelor in Speech and Language Therapy (Hons) at the University of Canterbury. She now lives in Tauranga, in the sunny Bay of Plenty, with her husband, two children and their fluffy cat. Along with her passion for words, Charlotte has a desire to bring mental health topics out into the open, and to provide hope for those in need. Hannah & Huia is Charlotte's debut novel.

Cybele Locke is a graduate of Otago and Auckland universities, who has published widely on labour history. Currently a senior lecturer in the History Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, she was a participant in the activist movements of the late twentieth century.

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Ross Lockyer, now in his late 70s, is retired and living with his wife Lestari near Kerikeri, Bay of Islands, in the far north of New Zealand. Friends have been telling him for over 30 years that he should write a book about his life and adventures in the forestry industry and the jungles of Asia and the Pacific. In 2013 he put pen to paper and started writing - "the book". Nine years later that one book has transmogrified into five books. The first two books "An Accidental Bushman" and "Cannibals, Crocodiles and Cassowaries" have been edited and published and have sold some hundreds of copies. The third book "The River is my Highway" was published in November 2021 and is now available for purchase. Book four is now being edited and will be published later this year (2022). Book five has been completed and is now being pre-edited and prepared for editing and publishing in 2023. Ross spent much of his life living and working in the forestry and logging industry in remote locations in Asia and the Pacific (Papua New Guinea, Irian Jaya/Indonesian West Papua, Borneo, Sumatra, Burma, Thailand, Philippines, Kiribati and others). With a gung-ho approach to life (and his own safety), Ross threw himself into his work and immersed himself in the local cultures and communities wherever he went, learning the languages and customs that helped him fit in and do his job. He had many hair-raising adventures and close scrapes, and he encountered many amazing people wherever he went.