Authors

Emma is the calligrapher at Inkberry Calligraphy, an art studio based in stunning Auckland, New Zealand. She has been doing calligraphy for over 30 years. She creates bespoke calligraphy art pieces, stationery for weddings, lettering for events and luxury brands, and also teaches calligraphy in face to face lessons and workshops. Emma is especially passionate about encouraging children's calligraphy skills. She knows that in a fast paced technical world, a focus on hand-writing and creativity is ever more important for children's development. By promoting the skills of handwritten lettering, she is trying to preserve the beautiful, ancient art of calligraphy...one letter at a time!

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Scott Pearson graduated with a Bachelor of Media Arts and has won a LIANZA Te Kura Pounamu award in 2015. He has spent his career collaborating with a number of clients both local and international, producing work for graphic novels, children's books, school journals, animation and more. After being exposed to Tintin and Asterix books as a young child, Scott was inspired to be an illustrator himself. He lives in Hamilton, New Zealand with his wife, four daughters and a busy at-home illustration & design business.

Raewyn Peart MNZM completed a Bachelor of Social Sciences at the University of Waikato in 1980, and a law degree and commerce degree at the University of Otago in 1987. After working in commercial litigation, she travelled overseas, including to South Africa, where she worked for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research as an environmental policy analyst. While in South Africa, she also completed a Master of Commerce at the University of Natal. In 1999 Peart became a director of the newly re-established Environmental Defence Society (EDS) and on returning to New Zealand in 2001, she started working for the society as a policy analyst. Over the subsequent 20 years Peart researched and published numerous reports and books on the environmental issues facing Aotearoa New Zealand with a particular focus on coastal and marine management. In 2019, Peart was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to environmental and conservation policy. She lives in Auckland.

Neville Peat is a Dunedin writer, the author of some 40 books covering themes of geography, biography, history, nature and the environment. In 2007, he was awarded New Zealand's largest literary prize, the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship, for a book about the Tasman Sea. Besides the books, Peat has written a number of nature conservation publications for the Department of Conservation. They include the nomination of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage Area in 1998, and the public discussion document for the creation of Rakiura National Park, Stewart Island, in 2002. For 20 years he has worked as a guest speaker on ship-based tours around mainland New Zealand and outer islands. In the 2018 New Year Honours, he was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to conservation. He lives with his wife at Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula.

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Jonathan Peet was born in New Zealand and has had a varied career including chef, fur trapper, farmer and estate agent. He is now retired in the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula on New Zealand's East Coast and enjoys fishing, scuba diving and playing guitar. Wairata is his first novel, stemming from his time in New Zealand's rugged hills, where small mining and mill-towns and settlements had flourished and died, along with their history, and this story was a culmination of that thought. He is currently working on his second novel. A story based around the first airmen of World War 1.

Nicky Pellegrino has worked as a journalist in New Zealand and the UK and is the author of nine bestselling novels. Born in Liverpool to half-Italian ancestry, she spent the summers of her childhood with family in Southern Italy. Her writing draws on these early Italian influences, capturing the food, family ties and romance of the place. Her novels are published in New Zealand, the UK and Australia and have been translated into 12 languages including Portuguese, Bulgarian and Polish. Biography and image courtesy of Read NZ.

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Anna Pendergrast is a Wellington-based analyst and writer and co-founder (with Kelly Pendergrast) of Antistatic, a research and communications consultancy aiming to bring clarity to complex issues around technology and the environment. Before co-founding Antistatic, she worked as a policy and strategy advisor for the New Zealand public service. - Kelly Pendergrast is a New Zealand writer and researcher living in San Francisco, and is the co-founder (with Anna Pendergrast) of Antistatic. Alongside her work with Antistatic, Kelly's writing on the aesthetics and politics of technology appears in numerous outlets in the US, New Zealand, and Europe. Previously, Kelly led communications for an environmental nonprofit and was board president of Artists' Television Access, one of San Francisco's longest running experimental media organisations.