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Tom O'Connor is a semi retired journalist and political commentator with an interesting in New Zealand History. He writes a weekly history column for the Waikato Times and previously wrote a similar column for the Taranaki Taranaki Daily News which focussed on the New Zealand Land Wars

Lucy O'Hagan entered Otago Medical School in the first class to be half female and graduated in the year of the Cartwright Inquiry. She has studied the sociology, anthropology and philosophy of medicine, as well as narrative practice. She has been a rata hauora/general practitioner for over 30 years and has worked in a huge range of contexts: rural tourist town, shearing gang clinics, urban iwi-run services and free clinics for the homeless. She currently works at Oratoa Cannons Creek in East Porirua in a predominantly M

Noel O'Hare is a freelance journalist, columnist, blogger and author. Northern Ireland-born, Noel has lived and worked in New Zealand since the early 1970s. In the 1980s he became a staff writer for the New Zealand Listener magazine, where he wrote many award-winning features on subjects as diverse as reading, tantric sex, diet, mental illness and alternative therapies. He was awarded a 2003-2004 Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism to write articles on mental health, in particular about the effects of migration on mental health. He is the author of Think before you Swallow: The art of staying healthy in a health-obsessed world (2007) and How to Save the World by Recycling Your Sex Toys (2009). Until recently, he worked as a researcher and writer for the PSA.

Author Belinda O’Keefe has a degree in Japanese, and worked in the tourism industry before changing career paths to focus on the exciting world of literature, studying book editing, proofreading and publishing. She was born in Greymouth, and moved to Canterbury when she was six. She grew up surrounded by books, learning that no tale is too tall to tell. She now lives in Christchurch with her husband, two boys, two cats and four rambunctious hens, who all give her great inspiration for her writing. She says, “I adore books, and love reading so much that I do it for a living – I’m the sub-editor of Latitude Magazine and a freelance copy editor.

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Michael O'Leary is a poet, novelist, publisher, performer and bookshop proprietor. He writes in both English and Maori; and his influences are both inspired by Māori and Polynesian aspects of living in Aotearoa New Zealand as well as his Irish Catholic heritage on his father’s and his mother’s side. Born in Auckland in the year of the Tiger 1950, he was educated at the universities of Auckland, Otago (Dunedin), and Victoria University (Wellington) where he completed his MA and PhD theses. His Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop imprint (inspired by Andy Warhol's 'Factory', the Beatles' Apple label, and John and Yoko's 'Plastic Ono Band'), which he founded in 1984, has published some of his own prolific output, as well as many other New Zealand writers. Michael O'Leary is a trustee for the Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa (PANZA), a charitable trust dedicated to archiving, collecting and promoting New Zealand poetry. He now lives in Paekakariki, north of Wellington. Website: http://michaeloleary.wordpress.com

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