Authors

Jade Reidy has been a highly awarded professional non-fiction writer for 40 years, and previous holder of an Oxford University Writers Fellowship. She has performed at the Edinburgh Writers Festival with many literary stars and been publishing director of a poetry imprint.

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Rebecca K Reilly (Ngati Hine, Ngati Wai) is a writer from Tamaki Makaurau. Her first novel, Greta & Valdin, won the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book, and was published by Simon & Schuster (US) and Penguin (UK) in 2024.

Rebecca K Reilly (Ngāti Hine, Ngāti Wai) is a writer from Tāmaki Makaurau. Greta & Valdin won the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book, and was published by Simon & Schuster (US) and Penguin (UK) in 2024.

New Zealand artist Clare Reilly has been painting and exhibiting since 1976. Her art has achieved international recognition, finding homes across the world. Clare supports conservation projects through her artworks, which express an underlying connection with the natural environment.

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Judith Reinken is an historian, scholar and feminist who farms a smallholding in the Far North of New Zealand. When she discovered the whole of the State Archives of Assyria in the library of the University of Auckland, she was intrigued by the story of Naqi'ah (also called Zaqutu) who, as Queen Mother, shared with her son authority to rule their empire. The politics of that time became the story of her life that Dr. Reinken imagined.

Barbara Relph became a professional writer and editor in 2017 when her separation forced her to re-think her life. Now a true digital nomad, she travels between rural Manawatu and central Auckland, armed with her laptop, living her best life. Having personally worked through many of the issues in Uncoupling, Barbara has a strong desire to ease the experience of others.

Natasha Rendell is fascinated with the known and unknown stories of history. In her travels to Egypt, Greece and Turkiye, she was fortunate to visit sites and monuments from the ancient world, which further inspired her writing.

Tamara Rendell has been forever fascinated by mythology, folktales and accounts of magic and mystery. She is inspired by the trees and rambling flower gardens surrounding her home and by an ocean bay along her northern horizon. An author of poetry and fiction, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Waikato Aotearoa New Zealand.