Authors

Lynn McConnell completed a Master of Arts in History in 2017 after a lifetime in newspaper and digital journalism. He has 25 books to his credit. These include: Something to Crow About (the centennial history of Southland rugby), Galatas 1941: Courage in Vain, Behind the Silver Fern (two editions), Chats (The autobiography of Ewen Chatfield), Living the Dream (The autobiography of Mils Muliaina), McKechnie, Double All Black (the autobiography of Brian McKechnie and Grand Larseny (the 1999 World Cup Cricket diary of Gavin Larsen.

Olivia McCord is a passionate home gardener, freelance writer for gardening magazines, and the founder of Crawford Road, a cut flower seed business. After starting her career in beauty marketing, Olivia discovered her true calling when she transformed a bare land project into an organic kiwifruit orchard and edible flower farm. A self-taught gardener, Olivia later gained qualifications in horticulture and has built a career around growing and arranging flowers. Now, she shares her knowledge to inspire fellow gardeners. A busy mum of two, Olivia enjoys rural life, growing and cooking with seasonal produce, and studying garden design through the English Gardening School in London.

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Jo McCready grew up on the rain-soaked streets of small-town Scotland before moving to the sunnier climes of Auckland, New Zealand in 2010. She has a background in psychology and a lifetime love of mystery and murder.

Athol McCredie is Curator Photography at Te Papa, where he has worked since 2001. He has been involved with photography as a researcher, curator and photographer since the 1970s. His publications include Brian Brake: Lens on the world (editor, 2010), New Zealand Photography Collected (2015) and The New Photography: New Zealand's first generation of documentary photographers (2019).

Bob McCree has spent the last 20 years photographing New Zealand and New Zealanders, and has over 70,000 images of all areas of the country and all aspects of the New Zealand lifestyle. A life member of the Howick Camera Club, he has been a member of the Photographic Society of New Zealand for the last 20 years and holds their highest honours award of a Fellow of that Society (FPSNZ). In recent years he has had over a dozen pictorial books published in his name, and has contributed many images to other books and a wide range of calendars and other pictorial publications. He lives in Howick, Auckland.

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Amy McDaid has a Master of Creative Writing (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor's degree in English and History from the University of Auckland. The first draft of Fake Baby was awarded the Sir James Wallace Prize- New Zealand's richest prize for a creative writing student. She works part-time as a Newborn Intensive Care Nurse and has work published in The Spinoff and Auckland University's Three Lamps Journal. Her short story 'Kowhai' was shortlisted for the Katherine Mansfield Short Story Novice Award in 2008.

Roger McDonald is an acclaimed Australian novelist, non-fiction writer, poet, and screenwriter. Among his ten novels are The Ballad of Desmond Kale, winner of the Miles Franklin Award, multiple-award-winning Mr Darwin’s Shooter and his most recent, A Sea-Chase. Linked to the Spirit of Adventure Trust by family, Roger divides his time between Waiheke Island and rural Victoria, and is a keen sailor.

Elisabeth McDonald MNZM is an independent legal researcher and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Canterbury. She has taught and published in the areas of sexual and family violence, law and sexuality, criminal law and the law of evidence for over 30 years, as an academic and as the Policy Manager for the evidence law reference at the New Zealand Law Commission. Elisabeth is the author of a number of evidence law textbooks and online legal resources, including ‘Rape Myths as Barriers to Fair Trial Process’ (2020), and is co-editor of From ‘”Real Rape” to Real Justice’ (2011) and ‘Feminist Judgments Aotearoa: Te Rino, the Two-Stranded Rope’ (2017).

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