Authors

Quinn Berentson is a writer, documentary film maker and photographer. After graduating with a B.Sc. Honours from Otago University he began writing and directing children's educational television, before moving to Natural History New Zealand, where he wrote, directed and produced documentaries, working for such clients as Discovery Channel, National Geographic and Animal Planet. He continues to do this alongside other writing projects. He is based in Dunedin.

Gabriel Bergmoser is an award-winning, New Zealand-born and Melbourne-based author and playwright. He won the prestigious Sir Peter Ustinov Television Scriptwriting Award in 2015, was nominated for the 2017 Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing and went on to win several awards at the 2017 VDL One Act Play Festival circuit. In 2016 his first young adult novel, Boone Shepard, was shortlisted for the Readings Young Adult Prize. His first novel for adults, The Hunted (2020), became a bestseller and a film adaptation is currently in development. Since then he has published the thrillers The Inheritance (2021) and The Caretaker (2023), along with the YA coming-of-age novel The True Colour of a Little White Lie (2021) and the middle-grade adventure Andromache Between Worlds (2024).

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Jeanne Bernhardt (b.1961), a contemporary New Zealand writer, has published seven book of poetry and prose, and has travelled extensively, working both in New Zealand and overseas. In 1997 she was awarded the Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary from Creative NZ and in 2016 she received the Earl of Seacliff Poetry Prize. After publishing Vorare Lacuna (1996), baby is this wonderland? (1999) and The Snow Poems/your self of lost ground (2002), she left New Zealand for the United States. She returned to publish a series of well-received books: The Deaf Man’s Chorus (poetry, ESAW), Wood (short prose), 26 Poems and Fast Down Turk (a novel), these latter three were with Dean Havard’s hand-printed Kilmog Press. In 2018, Tangerine Press published Bernhardt’s hand-bound Silver City and Two More (short stories) in the UK.

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With an anthropology and teaching background, often working with children in trouble, the author has encountered many women like Amber. Personal lived experiences also inform the characters in

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Jonathan Besser (born 1949) is a classical composer who has been involved in the New Zealand music and arts community since the 70s. Working across a range of disciplines, Besser has been the Composer in Residence for the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and he was the Mozart Fellow at the University of Otago. He has formed several bands, including Free Radicals, Bravura and The Zestniks, playing classical music, jazz and klezmer. Besser has written original scores for the New Zealand Quartet and the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Jean: The Ballet of Jean Batten. Jonathan is now in his seventies and lives in Mt Eden, Auckland.