Authors

Karen is a registered clinical psychologist based in Wellington, New Zealand. Karen works primarily in performance and life coaching. As a clinical psychologist, she assess, diagnoses and treats psychological problems. She is trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy but draws on a range of models and tools. She is a three-time author, regular media commentator and speaker.

The 35 authors all have connections to the Whitireia Creative Writing Programme and its associated journal, 4th Floor. The authors are:   Renée, Donna Banicevich-Gera, Bronwyn Bryant, Lynn Davidson, Natasha Dennerstein, Romesh Dissanayake, Nicola Easthope, Barbara Else, Helen Vivienne Fletcher, Anahera Gildea, Carolyn Gillum, Alison Glenny, Rata Gordon, Rob Hack, Trish Harris, John Haxton, Adrienne Jansen, Kristina Jensen, Marion Jones, Tim Jones, Rachel Kleinsman, Cushla Managh, Lucy Marsden, Tracie McBride, Kathy McVey, Fiona Mitford, Margaret Moores, Bill Nelson, Ralph Proops, Maggie Rainey-Smith, Tina Regtien, Miriam Sagan, Lorraine Singh, Tracey Sullivan and Charmaine Thomson. Foreword by Pip Adam.

No biography

Carl Nixon is an award-winning short story writer, novelist and playwright. He has twice won the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition, and won the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Competition in 2007. His first book, Fish 'n' Chip Shop Song and other stories went to number one on the New Zealand bestselling fiction list, and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. Nixon completed his first novel while he was the Ursula Bethell/Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at Canterbury University in 2006. Rocking Horse Road saw him identified as 'a major talent' by North & South, and was long-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2009. It has been published in China, France, and Germany and was on several lists for the best crime novels in Germany in 2012. His second novel, Settlers' Creek, was also long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award. His novel, The Virgin and the Whale is being developed as a feature film by South Pacific Pictures. His stage plays have been produced in every professional theatre in New Zealand. They include Mathew, Mark, Luke and Joanne, The Birthday Boy and The Raft. He has adapted for the stage Lloyd Jones's novel The Book of Fame and JM Coetzee's Disgrace. He was awarded the 2020 Howard McNaughton Prize at the Adam NZ Play Awards, recognising excellence in an unproduced script. In 2018 Carl Nixon was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in France where he worked on The Tally Stick. See more at www.carlnixon.co.nz/

No biography

No biography

Nina Nola has spent all of her working life among books, the majority of it joyfully teaching English literature at the University of Auckland. She has many academic publications to her credit and has guest lectured at universities and cultural institutions around the world. She has also been involved in several film productions in various capacities based on her Croatian heritage. Nina lives with her architect husband on a small farm by the sea in Whangateau and travels each year to spend time in her great-grandmother’s house on the island Hvar in Croatia. This is her first book.

No biography

Diana Noonan is a freelance journalist and author of many highly acclaimed books for young people. She has won numerous national and international awards for her writing. Diana lives on the remote Catlins coast in southeast Otago with her husband Keith Olsen, an illustrator. Her interests include environmental projects, running, natural history and food gardening, and she often travels to far-flung parts of the globe in search of traditional horticultural practices. Women of the Catlins is her first social documentary.

No biography

James Norcliffe is a New Zealand poet, editor, and writer of mainly fantasy novels for younger readers. He has written ten collections of poetry and thirteen novels for young people, most recently two hilarious stories for younger readers, Mallory, Mallory: The Revenge of the Tooth Fairy and Mallory, Mallory: Trick or Treat about the awful Mallory and her hapless sidekick Arthur. James Norcliffe and his wife Joan live at Church Bay in Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch.

No biography