Authors

Antonia Murphy is an award-winning journalist and the author of Dirty Chick and Madam, which has been adapted into a television series. She is also the founder of The Bach, a legal, feminist escort agency. A San Francisco native, she lives in Auckland, New Zealand with her partner and two children.

Dr. Ngahuia Murphy (Ngati Manawa, Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Ruapani ki Waikaremoana, Ngati Kahungunu,Te Arawa) is an award winning scholar, author, artist and public speaker committed to reclaiming and reactivating Indigenous women's sacred knowledge and ritual practice. Her widely celebrated research work in Aotearoa New Zealand has been instrumental in reviving 'lost' Maori menstruation rites of passage and women's ceremonies that were deliberately erased through patriarchal colonial processes. Her books 'Te Awa Atua: Menstruation in the Pre-colonial Maori world' (based on her award winning Master's thesis) and 'Waiwhero: A celebration of womanhood' continue to be wildly popular, inspiring a broad movement of reclamation concerning Maori women's ceremony. The books have inspired multiple art exhibitions, international and national theater works, a short film and documentaries on the revival of Maori matrilineal knowledge. Ngahuia's publications have been distributed in all schools in Aotearoa New Zealand by The Ministry of Education recognising the empowering and transformative content.

K.C Murphy has always had an extremely vivid imagination and finds story ideas popping into her head at the most inopportune moments, like 2am! After many years of ghostwriting for other people, she decided to try her hand at writing her own children's stories. Working with rhyme has always been her chosen format and she firmly believes she was rhyming words before she could talk properly. K.C lives in the beautiful county of Devon with her husband and their various rescued pets. It's her belief that every child deserves to be able to read and therefore enjoy the magical world of literature. Much of her inspiration for story writing comes from everyday life and seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. K.C would like to say a huge thank you to the furry visitor that inspired the Mouse Adventures stories and to you, the reader, for choosing to read them.

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Brin is an author, teacher and mother. Her psychological thriller Ghosts in the Rain was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Prize in 2017. She has published short stories and edited a literary journal. Children of the Furnace was her first novel for a Young Adult audience, followed by Crosstrees. In 2019, Children of the Furnace was shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in two categories. She lives in the Top of the South with her three children, partner and three dogs.

Ross Murray is an illustrator from the Bay of Plenty. Influenced by a combination of comic books and vintage advertising, his clients include Lonely Planet, NASA and Disney. In his spare time, he makes picture books for kids and comics for grown-ups.

Lee Murray is a third-generation Chinese New Zealander and multi-award-winning author, poet and anthology editor. Her manuscript of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud won her the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship at the development stage and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize when it was complete. She has won five Bram Stoker Awards, awarded by the international Horror Writers Association for superior achievement, and in New Zealand she has been made an NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow for services to speculative fiction and horror. Her poem 'Cheongsam' won the 2021 Australian Shadows Award. She lives in the Bay of Plenty with her husband and son.

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Jerry Mushin held academic posts for forty-five years until he retired in 2015. He also taught in a prison, a police training college, government departments, and for professional bodies. His academic writing, which is principally in the areas of monetary policy and exchange rates, has been published in Australia, Greece, India, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Qatar, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is the author of undergraduate textbooks, a novel, and children's stories. A Chinese translation of one of his textbooks has been published in Beijing. He has contributed articles to newspapers in several countries and to the Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History.

Steve Mushin is an industrial designer, artist and inventor who collaborates with scientists and engineers to solve perplexing problems that no one else seems to know what to do about - like what can be done with explosive cow gas or how to make bikes fly or cities transform into jungles as fast as possible. Steve has exhibited large-scale design drawings and models around Australia and in Japan. He works between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, and in 2015 received an Australian Design Honours award for his work in sustainable futures thinking. Ultrawild is Steve's first book.

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Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whatua) is head of Māori Studies, University of Auckland, and author of two previous books. Professor Mutu is a mandated representative of Ngāti Kahu nationally and internationally at the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. She is chief negotiator for the settlement of Ngāti Kahu's Treaty claim.