Authors

No biography

Invested with the King’s New Zealand Honours in 2023, with an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM), (for service to ethnic communities), Te Rangi Hiroa Royal Society medal, and Duke of Edinburgh Fellowship, Fulbright alumna, Emeritus Professor Edwina Pio is New Zealand’s first Professor of Diversity.

No biography

Mark Pirie is the author of a cricket poetry blog, collections of sporting poems, a rugby and business biography and the editor of the anthology 'A Tingling Catch': An Anthology of New Zealand Cricket Poems 1864-2009. He is a current member of The Cricket Society.

No biography

No biography

No biography

TE ATAAKURA PEWHAIRANGI Ngati Porou was brought up in te ao Maori, and her home language was and still is te reo Maori. A product of kohanga reo, kura kaupapa Maori and wharekura, she not only loves her language but also understands the responsibility as a fluent native speaker and writer to further promote te reo Maori. She has worked extensively in television, and has MC'd various regional and national events such as the secondary schools kapa haka competition, Hauora Unleashed and Manu Korero national speech competition. A former senior tutor teaching te reo Maori and cultural competency at Massey University, she is now the Maori Student Recruitment Advisor at the university.

Claire Plaisted was born and brought up in Cheshire, England. Today she is living in New Zealand with husband and three children and loving it. Claire is a Family History Researcher turned writer and self publisher. Claire is a prolific writer of many different genre's. Adult Romance, Regency, Detective, Erotic, Young Adult, Sci-fi, Paranormal, Thriller, and Young Children's adventure stories with a learning curve. Some of these are yet to be published. Claire also helps other Indie Authors get there books online by formatting them into eBooks or Print. Sharing all book on social media, local newspapers and bookstores.

Born in England Christine spent her early working life in Europe, mastered the French language and served for sixteen years as a missionary in West Africa. After moving to New Zealand she turned her attention to the struggling nation of East Timor which she has visited eighteen times. Her driving passions are living simply, caring for the poor, helping people become Christians and encouraging them to explore global mission.