Authors

Greg Billington is a New Zealander who is the author of several novels. He has a lifetime of experience in business and was co-founder of an international skin care company. He has also worked briefly, in government.

Victor Billot was born in Dunedin in 1972. He has worked in communications, publishing and the maritime industry. In 2020 he was commissioned by the Newsroom website to write a series of political satires in verse. His poems have been displayed in the Reykjavik City Hall and in Antarctica.

Janet Bingham grew up in Scotland, and studied fashion design at Edinburgh College of Art. She has worked in the jeans industry since the early 1980s, designing for brands such as Lee and Lee Cooper Jeans. In 1997 she founded Bear Brothers specializing in denim household textiles, which became a best seller for iconic design retailer The Conran Shop. After emigrating to New Zealand in 2007 with her two sons, she created mens and womens denim ranges for various companies, and introduced skinny jeans to the Kiwi market. Three years ago the bears came out of hibernation and Janet relaunched the Bear Brothers brand merging her passions for household textiles and clothing, all of course, crafted from denim. In September 2019, Janet opened her first denim store in Devonport, Auckland. She has neither written nor illustrated a book before, but decided as with most things in her life - to give it a go.

Judith Binney, DNZM, FRSNZ, was the author of many award-winning histories, including Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (1995) and Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1820-1921 (2009). Her work will appear also in Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (forthcoming, 2012). Photographer Gillian Chaplin is a director of the Melbourne based Magian Design Studio, specialising in exhibition design around the world. After graduating from Auckland University in languages and anthropology, Craig Wallace has managed literacy and English language programmes in the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

Hera Lindsay Bird was born and raised in Thames, New Zealand. She attended Victoria University of Wellington and then received her Master's degree in poetry from its International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of poetry, the self-titled Hera Lindsay Bird, was published by Victoria University Press in 2016 and Penguin UK in 2017 and won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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Rowan Bishop has been writing for 30+ years, producing many bestselling cookbooks including Vital, The Vegetarian Adventure Cookbook, Rowan Bishop's Vegetarian Kitchen and many more.

DV (David) Bishop is an author and dramatist based in the United Kingdom. He has worked as a journalist, a comics editor for Judge Dredd Magazine and 2000AD, and a creative writing lecturer. Bishop has published numerous books, graphic novels, audio dramas, and works for the screen. He has won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Novel (2022), the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (2020), been awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship by Creative Scotland (2017), and won the Page International Screenwriting Award for Best Short Film Screenplay (2007). He has also written television dramas and radio plays broadcast by the BBC.

Phil Bishop was a Professor of Zoology who worked at the forefront of conservation, seeking to deepen our understanding of amphibians as vitally important creatures. His passing early in 2021 is a loss keenly felt by the scientific community. This book now serves as a tribute to his incredible life.

Gavin Bishop is an award-winning children's picture book writer and illustrator who lives and works in Christchurch, New Zealand. The author and illustrator of approximately 60 books to date, his work ranges from original stories to retellings of Maori myths, European fairy stories, and nursery rhymes. Gavin has had a long-held interest in depicting New Zealand's history through illustration, evidenced in his now classic picture book The House that Jack Built (1999) which won Book of the Year; and also through his junior novels Piano Rock (2012) and Teddy One-Eye (2014). His landmark illustrated non-fiction title Aotearoa- The New Zealand Story was published in October 2017 and was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year at the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. A companion volume, Wildlife of Aotearoa was published in October 2019 and won the NZ Booklover Best Children's Award 2020 and an IBBY Honour Award for Illustration 2022.

Lizzie Bisley is Curator Modern Art at Te Papa. She studied at Victoria University of Wellington and the Royal College of Art, London, before working as a curator at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. While at the V&A she curated a number of major exhibitions on modernism and twentieth century design. Her research is focussed on histories of modernity, and she is interested in the close relationships between art, design and architecture in the twentieth century.

Bruce Bisset is a fifth-generation pakeha (New Zealander of European descent) born a dairy-farmer's son in the Waikato, brought up in Auckland City, prominent later on Waiheke Island, who now lives in Hastings, Hawke's Bay. He was a professional performance poet in his homeland from 1979-86, publishing three volumes of poetry in that time. His first collection, "beginnings" (pub. 1979) was a best-seller in New Zealand, and he performed extensively throughout NZ, from street corners to hotels, universities, clubs, schools, and major festivals such as Nambassa and Sweetwaters, in company with most of the prominent poets and musicians of the time. Bisset has also been a journalist, corporate video writer/director, blues singer, environmental activist and newsletter editor, film and video technicians' guild co-ordinator, café/venue owner/manager (twice), elected local body politician (3 terms), and newspaper columnist. Pre-Covid he was a core organiser for the A/NZ branch of Extinction Rebellion as well as performing with his five-piece band, "Bruce Bisset and the Rural Voters".