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Bill Nelson's first book of poetry was Memorandum of Understanding (2016). His poems have appeared in Best New Zealand Poems, Sport, Landfall, Hue & Cry, Shenandoah, The Spinoff, Minarets and The 4th Floor, as well as in dance performances and art galleries and on posters. In 2009 he won the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he is a founding editor of Up Country: A Journal for the NZ Outdoors. He lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara with his partner and two children, and his dog, Callimachus Bruce.

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Catie Nettlingham is a young woman who grew up and currently lives in Havelock North. She has a direct family of six who all love spending time at the local beach. At eighteen she left home to study at university in the South Island. There, a long way home, she became unwell and developed a mental illness. She left behind that new beginning and returned home and into the arms of loved ones. The following years were all about recovery. She loves being creative, keeping close relationships with friends and family, helping others and being out in nature. Catie is currently enjoying a job supporting people with intellectual disabilities and plans to return to academic study in the future. She is passionate about writing, helping others and advocating for mental health. She believes everyone deserves to get through their hard times.

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Greg Newbold is Professor Emeritus in sociology at the University of Canterbury. During his 32-year career at the university he published over 100 articles and ten books, mainly in the field of criminology. However after completing his PhD in 1986 Greg was contracted by the Royal New Zealand Foundation for the Blind to research the costs of blindness, producing a monograph that formed the centrepiece of the Foundation’s submissions to the Royal Commission on Social Policy 1988. Subsequently he was asked to write the New Zealand Association of the Blind and Partially Blind’s history for its 50th Jubilee in 1995. This was published under the title of Quest for Equity in October that year. The current book has been written to commemorate the Association’s 75th anniversary.  Written during Greg Newbold’s final year at Canterbury University, Equity and Governance is his 10th book. Greg retired in July 2020 and now lives in the Western Bay of Plenty.