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Jean Tekura Mason (Ngāti Nurau, Ngāti Teakatauira) has been the curator and manager at the Cook Islands Library & Museum Society since 2005, and was formerly an officer of the Cook Islands Parliament. She is particularly interested in the arts, folklore and Māori etymology of the Cook Islands. Also a noted poet, Jean lives in Rarotonga.

Ngahiraka Mason was born and raised in Te Urewera and was Maori curator at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tomaki from 1999 to 2015. Zara Stanhope is principal curator at the gallery and has written a number of books, articles and exhibitions catalogues. She has an MA from the Courtauld Institute and is finishing a PhD at ANU. Contributing writers include Len Bell, Nigel Borrell, Chanel Clarke, Jane Davidson-Ladd, Ngarino Ellis, Ales Filip, Sarah Hillary, Ute Larsen, Roman Musil and Kahu Te Kanawa.

Mason has long been recognised as a poet of rare originality and distinction in New Zealand.

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Sam Masters published The Story of New Zealand Freeskiing in 2021, to widespread critical acclaim, in the Masters family. The success of this globally-unique history prompted him to write Ski Bum - a love letter to the sport/religion/vocation/lifestyle/job of being a ski bum. Sam has chased snow his entire life; across ten countries, 78 winters, and hundreds of ski resorts. To feed his powder addiction, Sam has worked as a dishwasher, cutlery polisher, half-pipe shaper, ski technician, boot monkey, tour guide, snow shoveller, and journalist. A former editor of Powderhound ski magazine, Sam has published hundreds of articles in the global snowsports media. Sam wrote, filmed, produced and anchored The Mayhem Tour - a snowsports TV show and webzine (that's really what they called it in the early noughties). Sam edits the historical/satirical ski mag, Fat Cantab. Ski Bum is Sam's second book.

About the Author Her memoir 'On Angels Wings' - My Flight from Trauma to Grace, details sixteen years of unparalleled CSA and trauma. Flightpath to Healing is her second book and can be purchased through GloriaMasters.Com She is the founder of Handing the Shame Back foundation, a charity dedicated to CSA Survivors. She is the host of the YouTube and podcast channel of the same name, designed exclusively for survivors. She loves her life, is free to enjoy every moment and, yes, still follows her Angels wherever they go.

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Qiane Matata-Sipu is an award-winning journalist and an award- winning, international-exhibiting photographer. She is also a social activist and cultural commentator who has a 14-year career contributing to leading media publications and books across Aotearoa and the Pacific. Specialising in topics of identity, culture, land and women, NUKU is her first book.

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