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Robin Lee-Robinson lives in the Eastern Bay of Plenty where she’s a trustee for the 1926 Opotiki De Luxe theatre and writes reviews of films shown there for the local newspaper. This is her first Young Adult novel, planned in the trilogy. She has also published In Salting the Gravy, the memoir of a marriage, and Talkback Toast: a Reminiscence of Radio Pacific, where she worked as a producer. This featured Trevor Watson, one of their oldest listeners, and contributions from staff and audience. A long-term member of Tauranga Writers, Robin regularly contributes to Byline, and has written presentations, talks, and performed skits for a number of occasions, literary and historical. Leisure interests include kayaking, tree-pruning, and fishing.

Saskia Leek was born in Christchurch. She has an MFA from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, and has exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. She was nominated for the Walters Prize in 2010 for the exhibition Yellow is the Putty of the World and has been the subject of the touring survey show Desk Collection, spanning twenty years of work. Lynley Edmeades was born in Putaruru and is the author of two collections of poetry, As the Verb Tenses (2016) and Listening In (2019). She has an MA in Creative Writing from the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen's University Belfast, and a PhD in English from the University of Otago. She is the current editor of Landfall.

Owen Leeming was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1930. He has spent much of his adult life in the UK and France working for the BBC, UNESCO and as a translator with the OECD. He was the first Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton in 1970.

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Born in Hunterville, Julie grew up in rural communities including several years on Kawau Island. Her diverse and happy career in the gig economy has encompassed being a professional actor, voice artist, business owner, marketer, blogger, writer and photographer. Until her ADHD diagnosis at 52, she struggled as to why she felt so 'different' to her contemporaries. Proud mother of three young men she now lives a simple rural life with her husband as a musician and writer. She has found her happy space homesteading and in her gumboots, in the garden, with her quirky chickens.

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Michele Leggott was the inaugural New Zealand Poet Laureate 2007–2009 and received the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement in Poetry in 2013. Her collections include Vanishing Points (2017), Heartland (2014) and Mirabile Dictu (2009), all published by Auckland University Press. She coordinates the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (nzepc) with colleagues at the University of Auckland, and has co-edited Alan Brunton’s selected poems, Beyond the Ohlala Mountains (Titus Books, 2014) with Martin Edmond. In 2017 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.