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Avril Bell is a Pākehā New Zealander and honorary associate professor in sociology at the University of Auckland. Her research centres on the legacy of settler colonialism in making sense of Pākehā identities, New Zealand national identity and Māori–Pākehā relations. Her book, Relating Indigenous and Settler Identities: Beyond Domination (Palgrave, 2014) extends this focus to make connections between settler colonialism in New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the USA. She is co-editor of A Land of Milk and Honey? Making Sense of Aotearoa New Zealand (AUP, 2017).

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After growing up on the family farm in Tadmor, (rural New Zealand) I moved to Christchurch to complete my teacher training and then spent many years living, working and raising a family in Nelson. Takaka is home now, where I live with family and Flynn the dog, working on a variety of projects including a church renovation, writing poetry, growing veggies and riding motorbikes whenever the opportunity arises. In amongst it all, I have been fortunate to have had a fairly unique experience - spending time fully immersed in the Lakota culture in South Dakota. What a Journey...

Patricia Bell is an editor, proofreader, and published writer, based in Auckland. She has had her work (short stories, poems, and non-fiction articles) published in magazines, anthologies, and literary journals, and her fiction has twice been highly commended in national competitions. 'The Library of Unfinished Business' is her first novel.

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Mike Bellamy is a New Zealand author and earthworks contractor who lives in Taupo, New Zealand. His first book, Tough Country, was about the lives of loggers, hunters, scrub-cutters, fencers and bushmen in the New Zealand hinterland. Bellamy also spent 30 years in the mining country of Western Australia, which is the setting for his second book of yarns, Tough Outback.

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