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Catie Nettlingham is a young woman who grew up and currently lives in Havelock North. She has a direct family of six who all love spending time at the local beach. At eighteen she left home to study at university in the South Island. There, a long way home, she became unwell and developed a mental illness. She left behind that new beginning and returned home and into the arms of loved ones. The following years were all about recovery. She loves being creative, keeping close relationships with friends and family, helping others and being out in nature. Catie is currently enjoying a job supporting people with intellectual disabilities and plans to return to academic study in the future. She is passionate about writing, helping others and advocating for mental health. She believes everyone deserves to get through their hard times.
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Greg Newbold is Professor Emeritus in sociology at the University of Canterbury. During his 32-year career at the university he published over 100 articles and ten books, mainly in the field of criminology. However after completing his PhD in 1986 Greg was contracted by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind to research the costs of blindness, producing a monograph that formed the centrepiece of the Foundation’s submissions to the Royal Commission on Social Policy 1988. Subsequently he was asked to write the New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind’s history for its 50th Jubilee in 1995. This was published under the title of Quest for Equity in October that year. The current book has been written to commemorate the Association’s 75th anniversary. Written during Greg Newbold’s final year at Canterbury University, Equity and Governance is his 10th book. Greg retired in July 2020 and now lives in the Western Bay of Plenty.
Janet Newman was born in Levin. She won the 2015 New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition, the 2017 Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems and was a runner-up in the 2019 Kathleen Grattan Awards. Her essays about the sonnets of Michelle Leggott and the ecopoetry of Dinah Hawken won the Journal of New Zealand Literature Prize for New Zealand Literary Studies in 2014 and 2016. She has worked as a journalist in New Zealand and Australia, and a bicycle courier in London. She has three adult children and lives with her partner at Koputaroa in Horowhenua, where she farms beef cattle.
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John Newton was Llew Summers’ close friend during the last two years of the sculptor’s life. A poet, critic and cultural historian, his earlier books include ‘The Double Rainbow: James K. Baxter, Ngāti Hau and the Jerusalem Commune’ (VUP, 2009), and ‘Hard Frost: Structures of Feeling in New Zealand Literature 1908–1945’ (VUP, 2017). He is the 2020 Robert Burns Fellow.
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