Authors

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Nalini Singh was born in Fiji and raised in New Zealand. She spent three years living and working in Japan, and travelling around Asia before returning to New Zealand now - although she's always plotting new trips. She has worked as a lawyer, a librarian, a candy factory general hand, a bank temp and an English teacher, not necessarily in that order. Some Born in Fiji, and raised in New Zealand, Nalini Singh is a paranormal romance author. Initially trained as a lawyer, Singh turned to writing following the publication of her first novel, Desert Warrior, in 2003. From there, Singh’s books have been translated into over 20 languages, and have consistently appeared on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists since 2009. She is a two-time winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Novella/Novellette, and has won an array of awards from the Australian Romance Readers Association (ARRA) and Romantic Times Reviewers’ Choice Awards. people might call that inconsistency, but she calls it grist for the writer's mill.

Suzanne Singleton is the author of four previous books - The Promise, a collection of short stories, Boundary Flat Flounders a children's picture book, The Koneke and Hugo's Gift both novels. She has a career background in psychology and education and has worked in the United Kingdom and New Zealand. She lives at Tindalls Bay on the Hibiscus Coast north of Auckland.

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Olivia 'Liv' Sisson is a forager and fungi enthusiast who has been enchanted by the minutiae of nature for as long as she can remember. Liv was raised in Virginia, USA, and first learned how to spot small wonders in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She studied geology and art before moving to Otautahi Christchurch, where she works for New Zealand Trade and Enterprise and leads foraging tours in addition to her work as a writer. Liv has spent countless hours exploring Aotearoa with a curious eye for the flora, fauna and fungi that define this special place. Her writing appears in The Spinoff, Cuisine and Stuff, she has featured on RNZ, and she loves how fungi-spotting micro-adventures introduce wonder and awe into her everyday.

Jeffrey Sissons, a prominent anthropological researcher and writer in Aotearoa New Zealand, recently retired as an Associate Professor in the Cultural Anthropology Programme at Te Herenga Waka / Victoria University of Wellington. Sissons' extensive research encompasses colonialism, cultural change, and the cultural history of Maori and the Cook Islands. He has authored five books and numerous journal articles.

Craig Sisterson, Commissioning editor of Dark Deeds Down Under is a features writer and crime fiction expert from New Zealand who writes for newspapers and magazines in several countries. In recent years he's interviewed hundreds of crime writers and talked about the genre on national radio, top podcasts, and onstage at festivals on three continents. He's been a judge of the McIlvanney Prize and Ned Kelly Awards, and is founder of the Ngaio Marsh Awards and co-founder of Rotorua Noir.

Tauanu'u Perenise Tapu Sitagata teaches at McAuley High School in Otahuhu and the Centre for Pacific Languages in Manukau. He is a driver of the annual Samoan Language Week Secondary School Debate, which is one of his main inspirations for this book, and has received the National Excellence in Teaching Award for his efforts in teaching the Samoan language. Ani Huia Ligaliga is a Maori artist and illustrator. She studied art at Brigham Young University, Hawai'i. Her other illustrations include The Ever-Standing Tree, by Tim Tipene (Oratia Books, 2024). Ani lives in Hamilton.

Livvy Skelton-Price is an Author from New Zealand, she has published travel guides in the past and is now venturing into her fiction career. She has a blog on Medium.com and her website www.livvyskeltonprice.com

Patrick Skene was born and raised in Sydney and writes stories on the intersection of sport, history and culture. His work has appeared in Guardian Australia, The Age, Inside Sport, Boxing.com and Footy Almanac. He previously hosted an Aboriginal sports history radio program on the National Indigenous Radio Service and a boxing program on SEN Radio Melbourne. The Big O is his first book.

Joan Skinner is a long-time midwife and worked as a researcher as well as a practitioner. Her many articles on a range of midwifery issues are frequently cited, and she is well known in midwifery circles as a leading advocate of home birth. In 2019 she completed at master's in creative writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington.