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Jonathan Peet was born in New Zealand and has had a varied career including chef, fur trapper, farmer and estate agent. He is now retired in the beautiful Coromandel Peninsula on New Zealand's East Coast and enjoys fishing, scuba diving and playing guitar. Wairata is his first novel, stemming from his time in New Zealand's rugged hills, where small mining and mill-towns and settlements had flourished and died, along with their history, and this story was a culmination of that thought. He is currently working on his second novel. A story based around the first airmen of World War 1.

Nicky Pellegrino has worked as a journalist in New Zealand and the UK and is the author of nine bestselling novels. Born in Liverpool to half-Italian ancestry, she spent the summers of her childhood with family in Southern Italy. Her writing draws on these early Italian influences, capturing the food, family ties and romance of the place. Her novels are published in New Zealand, the UK and Australia and have been translated into 12 languages including Portuguese, Bulgarian and Polish. Biography and image courtesy of Read NZ.

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Anna Pendergrast is a Wellington-based analyst and writer and co-founder (with Kelly Pendergrast) of Antistatic, a research and communications consultancy aiming to bring clarity to complex issues around technology and the environment. Before co-founding Antistatic, she worked as a policy and strategy advisor for the New Zealand public service. - Kelly Pendergrast is a New Zealand writer and researcher living in San Francisco, and is the co-founder (with Anna Pendergrast) of Antistatic. Alongside her work with Antistatic, Kelly's writing on the aesthetics and politics of technology appears in numerous outlets in the US, New Zealand, and Europe. Previously, Kelly led communications for an environmental nonprofit and was board president of Artists' Television Access, one of San Francisco's longest running experimental media organisations.

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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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