Authors

Jane McCabe is a Melbourne-based historian. In 2007 she visited Kalimpong seeking information about her grandmother. Ten years and one PhD later, she published Race, Tea and Colonial Resettlement: Imperial families, interrupted (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). The book won the ARANZ Ian Wards Prize, and the NZHA Erik Olssen Prize. From 2014 to 2019, Jane was a lecturer in history at the University of Otago. She is currently writing the monograph from her Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden-funded project 'Splitting up the farm? A cross-cultural history of land and inheritance in Aotearoa'.

Claire McCall is an Auckland-based freelance writer who specialises in writing about architecture and design, and contributes to magazines and online media in New Zealand and Australia. Her first book Discover New Zealand Food was published by Chanel Publishers; her second Green Modern: Eco-Conscious Contemporary New Zealand Homes was published by Penguin NZ. This is the first time she has ventured up high mountains and into self-publishing.

Mary McCallum is a writer and publisher who lives in the Wairarapa and Poneke. Her own published work includes award-winning novel The Blue; a poetry book XYZ of Happiness and a children's novel Dappled Annie and the Tigrish. She won the inaugural Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize and her poem 'Sycamore Tree' was selected for Best NZ Poems. She is a director of Mākaro Press and The Cuba Press.

Margaret McCallum began her working life as a primary teacher, but soon swapped it for raising her own three children in multi-ethnic Porirua. She enjoys whatever ‘work’ she finds herself in, whether that be mentoring, writing, clutter-clearing, helping run a community centre or conducting a funeral. For ten years she moved about the UK, listening to life’s call and gathering an assortment of trainings and experiences. Since returning to Aotearoa-New Zealand eight years ago much of her focus has been on researching and pondering our approach to death and dying. A clutch of writing projects is now coming to fruition. Margaret has lived in some of Aotearoa-New Zealand’s beautiful far-flung places, and now calls Wellington home.

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Anthony McCarten is a New Zealand novelist, playwright, journalist, television writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the biopics The Theory of Everything (2014), Darkest Hour (2017), Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) and The Two Popes (2019). He received Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nominations for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes.

Rosalina-Ludmila McCarthy (formerly Palamountain) became Nelson's second woman professional photographer (after Rosaline Frank) with her own studio. One photographic career highlight was a commissioned assignment to India where she photographed Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi. After photographing a Child Care Centre in Siberia, a joint career of photography and research writing work began with documentaries, radio play written/produced/broadcast, becoming radio interview host, plus work on scripted audio-visual photography and general photo journalism. Later qualifications including a Post Graduate Diploma in Museum Studies led to researching/documenting commissioned evidential reports for Organisational & Private Clients on a variety of topics including Historical Land Issues & Claims.

Dr Lana McCarthy is a high-performance netball coach, and is currently working as a lecturer in teacher education at Charles Sturt University, Australia. This book draws on her doctoral thesis, which investigated the ways in which captains and coaches have constructed the culture of New Zealand's national netball team. She was formerly an assistant lecturer in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North, where she taught physical education. Dr Andy Martin is a professor in the School of Sport, Exercise and Nutrition at Massey University, Palmerston North. He has been involved in a range of experiential learning projects in sport management education, physical education, and outdoor education. He is the lead author of Outdoor & Experiential Learning (2004). He is also co-author of Legends in Black with Geoff Watson and Tom Johnson (2014). Dr Geoff Watson is a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities at Massey University, Palmerston North, where he teaches history. He wrote Seasons of Honour: A centenary history of hockey in New Zealand 1902-2002 (2002), and, with Professor Greg Ryan, co-authored Sport and the New Zealanders: A history (2018).

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Noelle McCarthy is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. "Buck Rabbit", her first foray into non-fiction, won the Short Memoir section of the Fish Publishing International Writing competition in 2020. Since 2017, she and her husband John Daniell have been making critically acclaimed podcasts as Bird of Paradise Productions. She has written columns, reviews, first-person essays and features for a wide range of media in New Zealand including Metro, The NZ Herald and Newsroom. In Ireland, she's provided commentary for radio and written for The Irish Times, The Independent and The Irish Examiner. With nearly twenty years' experience in radio, she is a go-to host at writer's festivals and has interviewed some of the world's most famous and well-respected storytellers, from Eleanor Catton to Marlon James, Margaret Atwood and James Cameron. She lives in the New Zealand countryside with her husband and their daughter, and she misses Irish chocolate.