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Ineke Meredith was born in New Zealand to parents of mixed-Samoan heritage. She spent part of her childhood in Samoa but moved to New Zealand to study medicine. She is a general surgeon with a subspecialty interest in breast cancer and breast reconstruction who has published research articles in international peer-reviewed medical journals on breast cancer and reconstruction, cancer rates among Pacific peoples in New Zealand, and has participated in international collaboratives on cancer rates in diaspora. She is the founder and director of Fur Love, a canine skincare company, and lives and works between New Zealand and Paris.

Ana and Olivia Meredith. I believe teaching my children about mindset and having a 'can do' attitude is the most important life lesson I can teach them. It's something my father did so generously for me, I want to continue the legacy. One day my 5-year-old daughter turned to me and said, "Mummy we should write a book to teach other kids about how their brains are magic too!" "My darling", I replied, "that is exactly what we will do." And so, we did!

Berwick is an anthropologist and educator based in Picton, New Zealand. International experience includes living and working in the Pacific Islands, the USA, the UK, the UAE and China. Career highlights include three published novels and four textbooks; voted Best of SET three times. SET is an Australian/New Zealand publication for teachers. Her latest book, The Tablets of Ur, was published by Global Publishing Group LLC, 2021. A graduate of the Universities of Minnesota (USA), California (USA) and Canterbury (NZ) and a member of the New Zealand Society of Authors, the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/ New Zealand, and a life member of Phi Kappa Phi USA.

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Eileen Merriman's first young adult novel, Pieces of You, was published in 2017, and was a finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults and a Storylines Notable Book. Since then, a stream of novels for adults and young adults have followed. She has received huge critical praise, with one reviewer saying- 'Merriman is an instinctive storyteller with an innate sense of timing.' In addition to being a regular finalist in the NZ Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, Merriman was a finalist in the 2021 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel and Moonlight Sonata was longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction 2020. Editions of some of her young adult novels have been released in Germany, Turkey and the UK and three have been optioned for film or TV, including the Black Spiral Trilogy. Her other awards include runner-up in the 2018 Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and third in the same award for three consecutive years previously. She works as a consultant haematologist at North Shore Hospital.

David Merritt has a broad, strong back, well suited for organic gardening, driving old Landrovers, and reinventing the economics of poetry. He makes publications of poems from recycled Readers Digest Condensed book covers and banana box cardboards, often in public places, on a footpath bench seat or from the bonnet of his car. Using stamp pad alphabet sets, a stapler, glue sticks, a photocopier and a copy left intellectual property model, Landroverfarm Press has now published over 100 distinct titles from unique single page A3 publications to collections, boxsets, #poetryracks, a #poetrybrick and anthologies.

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Yvonne Mes (Author) Yvonne Mes is a children's author, illustrator and devourer of books. Her books include Meet Sidney Nolan (illustrated by Sandra Eterovic), Oliver's Grumbles (illustrated by Giuseppe Poli), Little Bilby's Aussie Easter Egg Hunt and Little Bilby's Aussie Bush Christmas (both illustrated by Jody Pratt) and Little Lamb's Great New Zealand Easter Egg Hunt (illustrated by Aleksandra Szmidt).