Authors

Jade Pengelly is a vet nurse from Christchurch, New Zealand. She has worked in five practices between the UK and New Zealand. She was also teacher of veterinary nursing at Wintec, Waikato, for two years. She has a Bachelor of Science majoring in animal sciences, as well as a diploma of veterinary nursing. She has two horses and shares five dogs with her husband.

Jamie Pennell has had an esteemed twenty-year career as a soldier and leader inside the New Zealand SAS. He was sent on multiple combat operations in Afghanistan to assist other nations and the Afghan special forces in the war on terror. After leaving the Defence Force, Jamie worked with high performance athletes where he helped them achieve their sporting goals. Jamie now works as the Head of Mangatāwhiri Campus, Dilworth School, delivering their Learning in the Outdoors Programme, Te Haerenga (The Journey), training young men in skills for life.

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Diane (Binsley) Percy has worked as a secondary teacher of English and Art at schools in Auckland and South Auckland for many years. She has visited Kiribati where her daughter Anna Percy worked for five years. Visual artist, painter, printmaker, film director Claudia Pond Eyley MFA, was born in Matamata, New Zealand and attended schools in Montreal, Canada and New York. She returned to NZ to attend the School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland in the mid-60s. In 1983 with her daughter Brigid, she visited her friend Robin White and her family in Tarawa, Kiribati in the Pacific for a month. The two artists' collaboration resulted in the book Twenty Eight Days in Kiribati published by New Women's Press. Claudia Pond Eyley lives and works from her studio in Mount Eden, Auckland.

Emily Perkins is a writer of contemporary fiction, and the success of her first collection of stories, Not Her Real Name and Other Stories, established her early on as an important writer of her generation. Perkins has written novels, as well as short fiction, and her writing has won and been shortlisted for a number of significant awards and prizes. She was the 2006 Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellow, and she used the fellowship to work on her book, Novel About My Wife, published in 2008. She is an Arts Foundation of New Zealand Laureate Award winner (2011). Her acclaimed novel The Forrests was released in 2012, and followed with Lioness in 2023. Lioness was winner of the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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Delphine Perret is author–illustrator of more than a dozen children’s books, translated into several languages. She lives in Lyon, France, where she also co-founded an art gallery.

Clotilde Perrin is an illustrator and author living in France. A graduate of the prestigious School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, she has published more than 30 books and is known for her intricate lift-the-flaps books. Clotilde Perrin is an illustrator and author living in France. A graduate of the prestigious School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, she has published more than 30 books and is known for her intricate lift-the-flaps books.

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Leon Perrie is Curator Botany at Te Papa and was the lead science curator for Te Papa's long-term exhibition Te Taiao | Nature. Leon specialises in plant taxonomy, and the collection and curation of plant specimens. His research focuses on New Zealand's ferns: their numbers, locations and identification, and using DNA analyses to understand how ferns are related to one another and to species overseas. He was a contributing author for the Ferns and Lycophytes series for the online Flora of New Zealand. ; Patrick Brownsey was Curator Botany at the National Museum of New Zealand and Te Papa for over forty years, and expert with New Zealand ferns and lycophytes. He was the lead author for the Ferns and Lycophytes series for the online Flora of New Zealand. At the time of writing, he was Research Associate Botany and had previously been Head of Natural History at the museum where he also curated the philately (stamps) collection. Pat passed away in late 2023 and this book is a dedication to his work.