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A.W. Reed: Through his prolific works (he specialised in writing books on Maori topics) as well as his major association with a well-known publishing house (AH & AW Reed), the name of AW Reed has been a familiar household name for many years. Buddy Mikaere also has a strong reputation, particularly in the academic world, for Maori studies.

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Adam’s career has been largely in creative copy and concept development for his marketing agency Stun, and more recently in small business with the creation of Blackwell and Sons and the Greytown Distilling Company. He is an advocate for small towns and a corresponding lifestyle that prioritises his wife, travel and exploration, and a deep love of nature.

WRITERS: George Kahi, John Hawkesby, Chris Bailey, Paul Monin, Clare Dunleavy, Andrew Glenn, Anthony McNamara, Roanne Izzard Parker, Denis O’Connor, Anton Forde, Gabriella Lewenz, Graeme Revell, Kashmir Postel, Rosie Walford, Paora Toi-Te-Rangiuaia, Judy Davis, Maikara Ropata, Matariki Roche, Nick Saunders, Sue Fitchett, Tony King-Turner, Greg Treadwell, Lady Jennie and Izzy Fenwick, Sarah Gloyer, Carol Bucknell, Michael Maahs, Nalayini and Gareth Davies, Tanya Batt, Amanda Linnell, Selina Tusitala Marsh.

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Dylan is a TV editor and contributing writer for The Spinoff. Since September 2001, he has been unable to look away from the online conspiracy rabbit hole. As well as watching strange online worlds as a hobby, Dylan has also written about them as a journalist. In 2014 he joined David Farrier in exploring an internet mystery that ultimately emerged into the documentary film Tickled.

Claire Regnault is Senior Curator New Zealand Culture and History at Te Papa and has worked as a curator in the art gallery and museum sector since 1994. Her curatorial practice is eclectic in nature and she is particularly passionate about New Zealands fashion history. She is the author of New Zealand Gown of the Year (2003), and co-author, with Douglas Lloyd Jenkins and Lucy Hammonds of The Dress Circle: New Zealand Fashion Design Since 1940 (2010), which was a finalist in the 2011 NZ Post Book Awards. She is an active member of the Costume & Textile Association of New Zealand, and regularly contributes to the associations symposia and journal.

Marion Rego (nee Quartermain) (b. 1934) made teaching her career but has always loved writing and has been published in several genres - children's stories and songs, travel writing, poetry - and while working for the Correspondence School was involved in broadcasts and written resources for the school, as well as contributing to the New Zealand School Journal. A volume of her poetry, Written on the wind, was published in 2018. Marion Rego performs her work regularly at the Poets to the People readings on the Kapiti Coast. Margaret Jeune was born in Auckland in 1956 and grew up in Wainuiomata. She has a BA in Education and a Post Graduate Diploma in Early Childhood. She has three adult children and four grandchildren. She has been writing since childhood and has had her poetry published in Valley Micropress, Elderberries and Horowhenua Writer's Group anthologies. Three books of her poetry were published by HeadworX in 2019 and she featured in the May 2019 issue of broadsheet. A book of her photographs, A Photo Journey, appeared from ESAW in 2019. Alex Jeune was born in Wellington in 1986. He grew up in Otaki and Levin, and attended Levin's Waiopehu College. He moved to Lower Hutt in 2008 to study at Victoria University of Wellington. He graduated with a BA in Chinese and Sociology. He has had his poetry published in Valley Micropress, in the Horowhenua Writer's Group anthology, Iridescent Blue, and in broadsheet in May 2019. He has read his poetry at the "Poets to the People" Cafe in Kapiti and at the Fringe Bar Open Mic in Wellington City.