Authors

Kiri Lightfoot is an NZ-based author and actor. She has worked as a scriptwriter in children's television and as an actor both for theatre and screen. She continues to work part-time in television and also runs poetry reading sessions in aged-care homes and hospitals with charity 'Active Arts'. Kiri worked for many years as a telephone counsellor with Youthline and as a volunteer mentor in an alternative education school. Bear is her first novel for young adults and was inspired by working with young people at this time. Kiri is now a mother of three school-aged children and lives in central Auckland. Her previous books are picture books: Ming's Iceberg, illustrated by Kimberly Andrews (Scholastic 2021) and Every Second Friday, illustrated by Ben Galbraith (Hodder Children's Books 2008), a shortlist in the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2009.

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Barbro Lindgren is a pioneering children’s author from Sweden. Her many awards include the Astrid Lindgren Prize, the Nils Holgersson plaque and the Grand Prize of the Society for the Promotion of Literature. In 2014, she received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.Eva Eriksson is one of the world’s great illustrators. Her awards include the Astrid Lindgren Prize and the August award and she is consistently nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen and other international awards. Eriksson has illustrated numerous books published by Gecko Press including the internationally popular My Happy Life junior fiction series.

Dr Toni Lindsay is a ClinicalPsychologist who has been working with both adults and adolescents for over 10 years. She works at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse in the Oncology and Haematology departments, with a special interest in the care of young people, and is an AHPRA approved supervisor.

Dr Toni Lindsay is a Clinical Psychologist who has been working with both adults and adolescents for over 10 years. She works at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse in the Oncology and Haematology departments, with a special interest in the care of young people, and is an AHPRA approved supervisor.

p.d.r. lindsay has been writing short stories and stories for children for a very long time. Her first publication was in her school magazine and for a while she paid the bills writing short stories for 'the People's Friend' until she broke into the (then) well-paying university literary journals in Australia, Britain, Canada and the USA, but she still has a soft spot for comforting 'Ah, isn't it nice!' stories for old fashioned magazines and children's bedtime reading. In between novels, or when the novel won't move until the characters have sorted themselves out, p.d.r. continues to write and sell short stories. Sakshi Mangal https: //www.sakshimangal.com/about-me https: //reedsy.com/sakshi-mangal

Dr Toni Lindsay is a clinical and health psychologist who has been working with both adults and adolescents for over ten years. She works at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and teaches at the University of Melbourne (Adolescent Medicine) and the University of Sydney Nursing School. 

Graham is the author of seven poetry books and the one-time editorand publisher of a literary periodical. He has a degree in English, adiploma in teaching, and was the Ursula Bethell Resident in CreativeWriting in 2004. Max Gunn's Pay Book is his first novel. He enjoysreading, brisk walks, and designing gardens. Of English and Scottishdescent, he grew up in the lower half of the North Island, but now livesin Northland on an acre of native trees and tropical fruits. He has livedin all of New Zealand's major cities, as well as in Essex for a decade, from where he travelled throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, visiting sites that feature in this novel.

Dr Toni Lindsay is a clinical and health psychologist who has been working with both adults and adolescents for over ten years. She works at Chris O'Brien Lifehouse and teaches at the University of Melbourne (Adolescent Medicine) and the University of Sydney Nursing School. 

Eva Lindström has written and illustrated many highly acclaimed picture books. She was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in 2022, and has been nominated once for the Hans Christian Andersen Award and eight times for the August award which she won in 2013. Lindström was born in 1952 and lives in Stockholm. She began her career as a comic artist and cartoonist, and has had a major influence on the new generation of comic book artists now emerging in Sweden.

Professor Peter Lineham has for many years written and lectured extensively on the religious history of New Zealand. His recent work has focused on broader trends in contemporary religion. His most recent book is Sunday Best: How the church shaped New Zealand and New Zealand shaped the church (2017). He is currently engaged in various projects on new religious movements in New Zealand, and on Brethren, Protestant, Evangelical and Anglican history.