Authors

Philip's is one of Britain's best-known map, atlas and reference book publishers, with long-established market leaders such as the classic Philip's Modern School Atlas. Philip's products are created entirely from electronic databases and are continually updated to incorporate new information and real-world changes.

Originally from Paris, Nathalie Philippe has lived in New Zealand for the last thirty years. She has a doctorate from the Sorbonne University. She was the BNZ River of Time 1998 Historian-in-Residence and lived in Hamilton's oldest surviving building Beale Cottage for a year. She researched and curated the Waikato Museum of Art and History exhibition All Quiet on the Western Front? about New Zealand's involvement in the First World War. She works as a senior lecturer in French at the University of Waikato and teaches cultural studies, language and translation methodology. She has organised two conferences on France and New Zealand during the First World War. These were held in 2008 and 2018 in Le Quesnoy, the town liberated on 4 November 1918 by New Zealand soldiers. She has recently worked as a historical consultant on the permanent exhibition designed by Weta Workshop for the New Zealand Memorial Museum in Le Quesnoy.

William John (W.J.) Phillipps was born in Oamaru in 1893. In 1915, he joined the staff of the Dominion Museum (now Te Papa Tongarewa), Wellington, where he worked as an ethnologist, ichthyologist, ornithologist and scientific illustrator. During a career that spanned five decades, he published some 200 scientific papers and authored several books in the fields of zoology and anthropology. He passed away in 1967.

Pamela Phillips B.A. is a journalist and painter who has written and illustrated 'Dodger the kiwi that flew'. Pamela wrote an earlier book about endangered sea turtles, 'The Great Ridley Rescue' in Houston, USA while living there with her chemistry professor husband Leon Phillips on sabbatical. She has two sons and four grandchildren.

Hazel Phillips is a writer and communications professional who has worked for a variety of media, from the National Business Review (where she learned how to read a balance sheet) to CLEO magazine (where she learned how to use a hair straightener to iron a skirt). She has written two previous books: Sell! Tall tales from the legends of New Zealand advertising, a popular history of the advertising industry; and Wild Westie, a biography of Sir Bob Harvey. She is always working on a new book, even if it's just inside her own head. Hazel holds a BA(Hons) in French and an MA in media studies. In her spare time she enjoys multi-day tramping, skiing, ski touring, mountaineering, scuba diving, motorbiking, and sitting on the couch with a good book when it all gets too much.

Jock Phillips ONZM is a distinguished historian based in Wellington, New Zealand. Educated at Victoria University, he then studied United States history at Harvard University where he earned a PhD. Phillips was New Zealand's chief historian for 14 years (1989-2002), before initiating and editing Te Ara: the Encyclopedia of New Zealand (2002-2011). He has published 15 books on New Zealand history, established the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, and in 2014 was awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. His many governance roles include the National Library Society (president), Fulbright New Zealand (chair for three years), the New Zealand Portrait Gallery, the Victoria University of Wellington Council (2001-2012), and the Guardians/Kaitiaki of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Brendan Graham is a Wellington based digital colourist passionate about photography and history. He strives to understand light and colour harmony to achieve an accurate recreation of the past, and to reimagine historical stories through his work.

Kristen Phillips grew up in Te Awakairangi Lower Hutt and recently returned to Aotearoa after thirty years living in London. While there, she came first-equal in the WriteNow poetry competition and founded a long-running poetry group. She lives in Wellington with her partner, the writer Mia Farlane, and works for Dementia Wellington.

Craig Phillips has worked as a professional illustrator for the US and Australian publishing industries for twenty years. His client list includes Random House, Scholastic, Simon and Schuster, Hachette, Hardie Grant, Bloomsbury, Oxford University Press and many more. His work has appeared in art anthologies such as The Society of Illustrators Annual, Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual and Luerzers 200 Best Illustrators Worldwide, and has been exhibited at the Museum of American Illustration. Phillips also worked on Neil Gaiman's American Gods in 2017. His first solo work, titled Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods (Allen and Unwin, 2017) won the NZ Book Award's Russell Clark Award for Illustration, a Gold Ledger in the Australian Ledger Awards, a Notable Book in the CBCA Awards and was also a finalist in the Aurealis Awards.

Karen Phillips began writing in 2009 winning the Katherine Mansfield Novice award and the Heartland competitions that year and has continued to be successful in other competitions since then. Her stories have been published in Takahe and Flash Frontier and included in the Fresh Ink anthology. Her short story collection A Question of Blood was published by Steele Roberts in 2017. She lives on a hill overlooking the sea with her husband, twenty olive trees and sometimes a big black Labrador dog.

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Kiri Piahana-Wong is a poet, editor and the publisher at Anahera Press. She is of Ngāti Ranginui, Chinese and Pākehā ancestry. As a poet, Kiri’s writing has appeared in over forty journals and anthologies, including Essential NZ Poems, Landfall, Tātai Whetū: Seven Māori Women Poets in Translation, Ora Nui, Vā: Stories by Women of the Moana and more. She has one full-length collection, Night Swimming (2013), and a second, Give Me An Ordinary Day, is forthcoming. Kiri lives in Whanganui with her family.