Authors

Dr Lana Lopesi (MNZM) is an Assistant Professor in the department of Indigenous Race and Ethnic Studies, University of Oregon. There she teaches across her research areas of Pacific Islander studies, Indigenous feminisms and contemporary art. She is the author of False Divides (2018- BWB) and Bloody Woman (2021- BWB), which was longlisted for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Lana is co-editor of Towards a Grammar of Race- In Aotearoa New Zealand (2022- BWB) and Pacific Spaces- Translations and Transmutations (2022- Berghahn Books). Lana was Editor-in-Chief for the Creative New Zealand Pacific Art Legacy Project, a digital-first Pacific art history told from the perspective of the artists. Lana is also co-editor of the Marinade- Aotearoa Journal of Moana Art. Previously Lana was Arts Editor Metro Magazine (2020) and at The Pantograph Punch she was Editor-in-Chief (2017-2019) and Interim Director (2021), and now is a Pantograph Punch board member. Before that, she was Founding Editor of #500words (2012-2017) and Editor of Design Assembly (2018). Lana received her PhD in 2021 from the Auckland University of Technology, with a thesis titled Moana Cosmopolitan Imaginaries- Toward an Emerging Theory of Moana Art. Previously Lana was part of a global Indigenous Curatorium who first formed to curate the exhibition The Commute at the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2018) with subsequent projects including Layover at Artspace Auckland (2019) followed by Transits and Returns at Vancouver Art Gallery (2019). Lana was honoured in the 2023 New Year's Honours, becoming a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the arts.

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Julie Louisson's intention to help raise the wellbeing of our children is a thread that has run through her studies, her teaching career, her parenting and her writing. In 2016, she published her website and began posting short personal essays about motherhood.

Margaret Lovell-Smith is a Christchurch writer who has previously published on the nineteenth-century women’s movement in Canterbury, women’s biography, local and regional history. She was the lead researcher and writer for the ‘Voices Against War’ website launched in 2016, a project which led eventually to this book. Her previous books include the edited anthology 'The Woman Question: Writings by the women who won the vote' (1992), 'The Enigma of Sister Mary Leo: The story behind New Zealand's most famous singing teacher' (1998), 'Hurunui Heritage: The development of a district, 1950–2000' (2000), and 'Easily the Best: The life of Helen Connon, 1857–1903' (2004).

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Dr Nick Mortimer has been a New Zealand based professional geologist for more than 25 years. His areas of expertise include mineralogy, structural geology and tectonics. Hamish Campbell has been a professional geologist in New Zealand for more than 30 years and is best known for his role as geologist and science commentator at Te Papa. Margaret Low is happiest behind a camera and works as a science photo-librarian and photographer.    

Phil Dadson ONZM was founder of the acclaimed music group From Scratch. He lectured at the Elam School of Fine Arts from 1977, leaving in 2001 to take up full-time art practice. In 2010 the Wellington Sculpture Trust commissioned his Akau Tangi, a wind-powered sculpture on Cobham Drive. In 2015, the feature film Sonicsfromscratch, documenting Dadson's career, premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival. He is a 2001 Arts Foundation Laureate, and is a recipient of a New Zealand Antarctic Artist Fellowship and a Fulbright-Wallace Arts Trust Awards. Dadson is represented by Trish Clark Gallery in Auckland. He lives in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland. Nic Low (Ngai Tahu) is the partnerships editor at NZ Geographic magazine and the former co-director of WORD Christchurch. An author of short fiction, essays and criticism, his writing on wilderness, technology and race has been widely published and anthologised on both sides of the Tasman. He received the 2018 CLNZ Writers' Award, and his story collection Arms Race was named a New Zealand Listener and Australian Book Review Book of the Year. His 2021 book, Uprising, detailed nine walking expeditions into the Ngai Tahu history of Ka Tiritiri-o-te-moana, the Southern Alps. He lives in Otautahi Christchurch.

Sam Low won MasterChef NZ in 2022 and he's an award-winning barista and latte art champion, as well as an Instagram superstar.He is passionate about modern Chinese gastronomy, and focused on honouring traditional cuisine through an immigrant diasporic lens.

Andrene, or Andie as her cozy mystery readers know her, has a love of writing instilled in her by her mum. Although if her mum was still alive, she'd be smacking Andrene around the back of the head given the direction some of her writing has taken. Irreverent, cutting and reflecting her background as a stand-up comic, it can be edgy, and even dark in places. Andrene lives in New Zealand in the beautiful Hawke's Bay - an area renowned for its stunning scenery and award-winning wines.

Andrene Low is a New Zealand author, whose earliest memory of critical acclaim was aged nine when she receiving an 'A' on her essay about the horrific Aberfan disaster. Sadly the praise from her teacher did little to lessen the nightmares that followed, given twenty-eight adults and 116 children lost their lives in the tragedy. From there she's moved onto writing across several genres, routinely receiving four and five-star reviews on international retail sites and Goodreads. Andrene's love of writing was instilled in her by her mum, although if her mother were still alive, she'd be smacking Andrene across the back of the head given the direction some of her writing has taken. DietVale is a case in point, and her first horror/thriller. Irreverent, cutting and reflecting her background as a professional stand-up comic -sharing the stage with Mike King, Te Radar, and many more - Andrene's writing is edgy with humour that can be downright dark in places.

Andrene Low is a Hawke's Bay writer and author, whose writing reflects her background as a professional stand-up comic. Her writing is crisp and clean with humour that is dark in places.