Authors

Chris Long was born in 1991 and grew up two days' hike from the nearest road, at Gorge River on the wild West Coast of New Zealand. After seventeen years living with his family in remote isolation, he left home to attend school in Wanaka. On completing his education, he set off to explore as much of the world as possible, travelling to sixty countries on six continents and taking a variety of jobs, including teaching extreme survival skills in Antarctica, working as a dog musher with huskies in arctic Norway, and crewing on a small yacht sailing through the Northwest Passage. Chris's father, Robert 'Beansprout' Long, and mother, Catherine Stewart, each published best selling memoirs, A Life on Gorge River (2010) and A Wife on Gorge River (2012). This is Chris's first book.

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Dr Terrence M Loomis is an economic anthropologist and independent researcher specialising in the political economy of the oil and gas industry. He was Professor of Development Studies at Waikato University before becoming a senior policy advisor under successive National and Labour governments. His 2017 publication, Petroleum Development and Environmental Conflict in Aotearoa New Zealand (Lexington Books) was written while he was a Visiting Research Scholar at Victoria University’s Institute of Governance and Policy Studies. Dr Loomis serves as coordinator of the Fossil Fuels Aotearoa Research Network (FFARN).

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.