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Greg Ryan is a history professor and proctor at Lincoln University. He is a fellow of the Australian Society for Sports History and author of Sport and the New Zealanders: A History (with Geoff Watson, Auckland University Press, 2018), winner of the Australian Society for Sports History Book Award 2019; The Contest for Rugby Supremacy: Accounting for the 1905 All Blacks (Canterbury University Press, 2005), The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832–1914 (Frank Cass, 2003) which won the 2005 Ian Wards Prize, and Forerunners of the All Blacks: The 1888–89 New Zealand Native Football Team in Britain, Australia and New Zealand (Canterbury University Press, 1993).
James Ryan is a school student living in Canterbury. He has taken a keen interest in science, especially natural history, from a very early age. He is a member of the Canterbury Museum Explorer’s Club and is an avid collector of artefacts.
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Courtney Sina Meredith is a distinguished author whose work delves into issues such as racism, sexism and poverty. Her debut poetry collection Brown Girls in Bright Red Lipstick (Beatnik, 2012) was followed by acclaimed short story collection Tail of the Taniwha (Beatnik, 2016), and historical feat The Adventures of Tupaia (Allen & Unwin, 2019). Courtney has been awarded prestigious creative opportunities around the world. Heralding an era of niu leadership, her heart lies in giving voice to the contemporary experiences of Moana fafine.
This is Franciska Soares’ debut into the world of Fiction, after having achieved undreamt-of success in the non-fiction space with her publishers: Hachette UK. A decades-old time lag – during which her artistic impulse has lain dormant, bookended by ‘life’ – is what she draws on: The turning points, The high-noon’s, The knife-edges, The quotidian, all experienced in three disparate countries: India, The UAE and New Zealand, where she presently resides. In returning to writing she says she has found her native language that has afforded her an ‘in’ to be in. It is the torch – ‘not directed at the root of things, but a subtle mist where the unseeable is revealed’ – that has helped her find her way home. A teacher with a double Masters (Education and Commerce), Franciska lives quietly in Queenstown, The Aspen of The Southern Hemisphere.
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Freya Daly Sadgrove is a writer, performer and theatre maker from Pōneke. She has a Master of Arts from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and her work has appeared in various publications in Aotearoa, Australia and the US. Head Girl is her first book.
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