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Paul Protheroe is a 76-year-old retired unionist/postal worker. He has published collected poems One Fingered in Papatoetoe and Sometimes like Taurus and also in many magazines including recently in Takahe. He lives in Auckland.

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Bonnie and her husband Bryan live in western BC, Canada, along with their six sons. Bonnie enjoys hiking, art, reading, and gathering with friends and family. She is the author of the illustrated children's book, "The Weight of Wings" and the devotional journal "Making a Clean Break". Bonnie and her husband co-founded The Union Movement to help people find wholeness in the areas of identity, sexuality, and relationships with a gospel-centred approach.

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Christopher Pugsley is one of New Zealand's leading military historians. A retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the New Zealand Army, he was a lecturer in military studies in New Zealand and Australia, and retired in 2012 as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Recent works include a new edition of The Anzac Experience: New Zealand, Australia and Empire in the First World War, and A Bloody Road Home: World War Two and New Zealand's Heroic Second Division. He is historical director of the 'Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War' exhibition at Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, which is attracting huge crowds.

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Nafanua Purcell Kersel (Satupa'itea, Falealupo, Aleipata, Tuaefu) is a writer, poet and performer who was born in Samoa and raised in Te-Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa. Her poetry has been widely published. She has an MA from the IIML and won the 2022 Biggs Family Prize in Poetry for Black Sugarcane. She lives in Te Matau-a-Maui Hawke's Bay.