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Brin is an author, teacher and mother. Her psychological thriller Ghosts in the Rain was shortlisted for the Mslexia Novel Prize in 2017. She has published short stories and edited a literary journal. Children of the Furnace was her first novel for a Young Adult audience, followed by Crosstrees. In 2019, Children of the Furnace was shortlisted for the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults in two categories. She lives in the Top of the South with her three children, partner and three dogs.

Ross Murray is an illustrator from the Bay of Plenty. Influenced by a combination of comic books and vintage advertising, his clients include Lonely Planet, NASA and Disney. In his spare time, he makes picture books for kids and comics for grown-ups.

Lee Murray is a third-generation Chinese New Zealander and multi-award-winning author, poet and anthology editor. Her manuscript of Fox Spirit on a Distant Cloud won her the Grimshaw-Sargeson Fellowship at the development stage and the NZSA Laura Solomon Cuba Press Prize when it was complete. She has won five Bram Stoker Awards, awarded by the international Horror Writers Association for superior achievement, and in New Zealand she has been made an NZSA Honorary Literary Fellow for services to speculative fiction and horror. Her poem 'Cheongsam' won the 2021 Australian Shadows Award. She lives in the Bay of Plenty with her husband and son.

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Jerry Mushin held academic posts for forty-five years until he retired in 2015. He also taught in a prison, a police training college, government departments, and for professional bodies. His academic writing, which is principally in the areas of monetary policy and exchange rates, has been published in Australia, Greece, India, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Qatar, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is the author of undergraduate textbooks, a novel, and children's stories. A Chinese translation of one of his textbooks has been published in Beijing. He has contributed articles to newspapers in several countries and to the Encyclopedia of Economic and Business History.

Steve Mushin is an industrial designer, artist and inventor who collaborates with scientists and engineers to solve perplexing problems that no one else seems to know what to do about - like what can be done with explosive cow gas or how to make bikes fly or cities transform into jungles as fast as possible. Steve has exhibited large-scale design drawings and models around Australia and in Japan. He works between Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, and in 2015 received an Australian Design Honours award for his work in sustainable futures thinking. Ultrawild is Steve's first book.

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Margaret Mutu (Ngāti Kahu, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Whatua) is head of Māori Studies, University of Auckland, and author of two previous books. Professor Mutu is a mandated representative of Ngāti Kahu nationally and internationally at the United Nations Permanent Forum for Indigenous Issues. She is chief negotiator for the settlement of Ngāti Kahu's Treaty claim.

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