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Karina McHardy is a New Zealand health professional and writer with a career spanning clinical care, academia, health strategy and global public health. She has contributed to major initiatives across the national health system and worked internationally with the University of Oxford and the World Health Organization. Karina holds a medical degree from the University of Auckland, a master's in global health and a doctorate from the University of Oxford. Her work has been recognised through national leadership honours and emerging talent awards. A former elite gymnast and classical ballet dancer, she brings creativity, discipline and heart to all she does. Karina now focuses on improving outcomes for neurodiverse children and lives with her husband and young twins.

Nigel McHardy lives in the countryside with beautiful views over the Whangārei Harbour that inspire his stories. A professional designer by day, he enjoys dreaming up new projects inspired by his love of nature, and spending time with his family. This is his first book.

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Liam McIlvanney was born in Scotland and studied at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford. He has written for numerous publications, including the London Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. His first book, Burns the Radical, won the Saltire First Book Award. His crime novels have won multiple awards, including the Bloody Scotland McIlvanney Prize, the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel, and he has also been shortlisted for the Theakston Crime Novel of the Year. He is Stuart Professor of Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He lives in Dunedin with his wife and four sons.

Himali McInnes is a family doctor who works in a busy Auckland practice and in the prison system. She writes short stories, essays, articles, flash fiction and poetry. She has been published locally and internationally (in literary journals and anthologies), and has either won or been short-listed in several writing competitions. She was an NZSA Mentorship recipient for 2020, and the inaugural Verb Wellington Writers Resident in Oct 2020. Her writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, often explores the theme of otherness. Himali is also a keen gardener, beekeeper, cook and chicken farmer. She is obsessed with dogs and books.

Sara McIntyre was born in Wellington and worked there as a neonatal intensive care nurse for several years. In 2010 she moved to Kakahi in the King Country, where she had been coming to since her family arrived there for a fishing trip in 1960. While working as a district nurse, based at Taumarunui Hospital, she had the opportunity to further explore the area as a photographer. This led to her first solo exhibition at the Anna Miles Gallery in 2016. The Serjeant Gallery, Whanganui, will exhibit her work on May 2020.

Selina McIntyre runs a dog behavioural consultancy called Dogs Best Friend, in Waikato, New Zealand. Her study of animal behaviour began as a teenager, working with lion cubs at a wildlife park. She has a Bachelor of Applied Animal Technology, and strives to bring long-term happiness to every dog she encounters. She lives with her family, her two border terriers, Trev and Lily, and a mostly tolerant black and white moggy, Isobelle.

Lyndy McIntyre grew up in the 50s and 60s in a time of relative prosperity in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the 70s she became increasingly active in left/progressive issues and her community. Lyndy learnt about unions on the job as a union delegate in the printing industry through the 1980s. In 1990 she started a 30-year working life in unions, with a brief stint as a parliamentary press secretary. In 2007 she was elected to Kāpiti Coast District Council. She served one term and decided that union work was more worthwhile. In 2015, she became one of two paid community organisers in Living Wage Movement Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2020, she retired from her community organising role and began to write this story of the movement.