Authors

Sandra Morris is a Whanganui-based author and illustrator of award-winning children’s natural history books as well as a botanical artist and a keen nature journaller.

Matt Morris completed a PhD on Christchurch's garden history and works as the sustainability manager at the University of Canterbury. Matt also runs an organic sauerkraut business called The Urban Monk, and is the co-chair of Soil & Health Association National Council. He is deeply involved in community-led garden initiatives and has surrounded his home in New Brighton with fruit trees and vegetables. His previous book, Common Ground: Garden Histories of Aotearoa (Otago University Press, 2021) was shortlisted for the NZSA Heritage Literary Awards 2021.

Paula Jane Kiri Morris is a novelist, short story writer and essayist of English and Māori (Ngati Wai) descent. She has received numerous fellowships, international residencies and awards for her writing, including best work of fiction at both the NZ Post Book Awards and Nga Kupu Ora Māori Book Awards in 2012 for her novel Rangatira. Her stories are widely anthologised and broadcast, and her 2008 collection, Forbidden Cities, was a regional finalist in the Commonwealth Prize. Paula has a D. Phil from the University of York and an MFA from the University of Iowa. She spent several decades, living overseas, working in London and New York, and since 2003 she has taught creative writing at universities, including Tulane University in New Orleans, and the University of Sheffield in England. She now teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature.

Di Morris was born in Kirikiriroa Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand. She grew up in Te Matau-a-Maui Hawkes Bay, studied Fine Arts at Te Whare Wananga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, followed by a Master of Design from Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. In the 1980s and '90s she worked as a graphic designer and art director in Sydney, Australia, before returning home to Aotearoa New Zealand in 2001. Di teaches secondary school design and photography, and in her spare time she gardens and illustrates. She lives in Hawkes Bay with her free-range chickens.

Bill Morris is a writer, documentary filmmaker and musician based in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. He has worked extensively as a wildlife filmmaker for NHNZ, the BBC Natural History Unit and others, and his passion for science and stories of the natural world informs all his work. 

Toby Morris is an award-winning cartoonist, comic artist and illustrator based in Auckland. He has worked for Radio New Zealand and currently works for The Spinoff, creating non-fiction comics often addressing relevant social issues in Aotearoa New Zealand. Toby has published a number of books, including the comic books Alledaags: A Year in Amsterdam; Don't Puke On Your Dad: A Year In The Life of A New Father; and Dad Man Walking; as well as two children’s books, Capsicum, Capsi Go and The Day The Costumes Stuck. Toby also illustrated Te Tiriti O Waitangi, a graphic novel of the history and importance of the Treaty of Waitangi. Toby has received international recognition for his work with Siouxsie Wiles covering the COVID-19 pandemic. Published in The Spinoff, the animated graphics were shared widely around the world. In 2022 Toby won the Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize. Bio courtesy of Read NZ.

Bill Morris is a writer, documentary filmmaker and musician based in Port Chalmers, New Zealand. He has worked extensively as a wildlife filmmaker for NHNZ, the BBC Natural History Unit and others, and his passion for science and stories of the natural world informs all his work. 

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Natalie Morrison has an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, where she received the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry in 2016. She lives and works in Wellington. Pins is her first book.

Robin Morrison (1944-1993) was one of New Zealand's most significant documentary photographers, best known for his portrayal of the New Zealand countryside, everyday life and vernacular architecture. His images of the occupation of Takaparawha Bastion Point and the 1981 Springbok Tour are among some of the most important in our photo documentary history. He was the photographer behind several books in collaboration with noted writers, including Michael King and Keri Hulme.

Philip S. Morrison is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He completed his honours and masters degrees at Victoria University of Wellington and his PhD under a Commonwealth Scholarship at the University of Toronto. His research into local housing markets led to a Research Assistant Professorship at the Centre for Public and Urban Policy and the Department of Regional Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Following his appointment to Victoria University in 1982, Philip turned his attention to the study of local labour markets and was awarded the first Hodge Fellowship by the Social Science Research Fund Committee in 1985. This was followed by a number of visiting appointments including the Urban Studies Journal Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, University of Cambridge in 1995, and visiting positions at the University of Melbourne, the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the Institute of Social Science Research (ISSR) University of Queensland and the University of Groningen among others. Philip was appointed the Henry Lang Fellow by the Institute of Policy Studies in 1999. During this time he began exploring the geographic implications of social policy, which led to his current research into the geography of wellbeing. Philip was awarded the 2013 New Zealand Geographical Society Distinguished Geography Award. For publications see: http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sgees/about/staff/philip-morrison