Authors

Lawyer Dermot Ross has grown up and has spent the majority of his 67 years living in beautiful New Zealand, with a brief sojourn to London during his 20s. Although Hemingway's Goblet is Dermot's debut novel, he is no stranger to writing, having authored several book reviews for journals as well as articles which have been published in legal texts. He was also a founder shareholder in a well-regarded New Zealand literary magazine in the 90s. Influenced by his close network of friends - many of whom are published novelists - Dermot decided to embark on his own novel. Hemingway's Goblet showcases Dermot's knowledge and passion for the law, military history and, of course, the life and works of Ernest Hemingway.

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Justine Ross was born into a farming family - her mother was raised on a dairy farm and her father on an orchard. A trained speech language therapist, Justine also graduated with distinction from the London School of Journalism. She has been a trustee of The Rising Foundation, Play it Strange Charitable Trust and a judge of the AMP Do Your Thing Awards. She is now on the board of United Nations Women Aotearoa New Zealand. In 2010 Justine co-authored the best-selling book Every Bastard Says No: The 42 Below Story. She launched a tourism business at Lake Hawea Station in 2020 which was awarded a Conde Nast Gold award for 2023. She is a keen hiker, traveller and climate lobbyist. Geoff Ross was born and raised on a dairy and deer farm south of Auckland. He attended Lincoln University where he graduated with a B Com (Agricultural). In 2018 he received a Doctor of Commerce from Lincoln recognising his achievements as a serial entrepreneur. He founded 42 Below and was a director and chairman of The Trilogy Group and the Savor Group. Geoff has been a trustee of Melanoma NZ and the Endangered Species Foundation. He is currently a trustee of Pure Advantage New Zealand and a board member of New Zealand Natural Fibres. He was in the New Zealand Free Diving Squad and is a keen Hunter and conservationist and climate lobbyist.

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Jillian Rothwell completed an arts degree at Otago University and later a business degree from Massey University. She has worked as a television current affairs researcher, a teacher and run two small businesses. However, her greatest passions are history, the arts, architecture and her family.

Stephen Roucher is an independent photographer, based in Wellington Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Since graduating from Elam School of Fine Arts in 1995, he has accumulated an archive of conceptually focused series of photographs, depicting the urban and rural environments. His practical experience in the process of photography, both analogue and digital, informs his approach to making his art. He had solo exhibition 'Stands' (series of stands mostly from rural sports fields) at Whangarei Art Museum in 2011 and McNamara Gallery, Whanganui in 2012, 'Void', an installation in the iconic TestStrip gallery in Auckland in 1995. His photographs were featured in many group shows - including in Now & Then: Enduring and developing themes in contemporary New Zealand photography, Te Manawa, Palmerston North, in 2012.

Simon Rowe left the green hills of New Zealand for the big sky country of Australia when he was sixteen years old. At twenty-one, he set out for the world and somehow managed to fund his travels by photographing and writing about them. He has lived in Japan for more than twenty-five years, winning numerous awards for his short fiction and screenplays, including Good Night Papa (2013 Asian Short Screenplay Contest) and Pearl City: Stories from Japan and Elsewhere (2021 Best Indie Book Award). His stories about Japanese life and culture have appeared in The Paris Review, the New York Times, TIME (Asia), the South China Morning Post, The Straits Times, The Australian, and the Australian Financial Review. He has a black belt in iaido (sword quick-drawing), a passion for sea kayaking, and an itch for adventure he never seems able to scratch.

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When I was young the school gave up on me, telling my parents that I would never learn to read and write. So, my parents got a private tutor who soon also have up and said the same thing. They must have wondered what they had adopted. My mother painstakingly taught me herself. I recently found huge books with massive hand drawn pictures, that she had made in an effort to help me read and write. I also recently found one made by my artist grandmother with stunning paintings which I am also turning into a book. Long story short I can read and write. I wrote this when I was younger after watching my dad chase a fly around the house with his rolled-up newspaper. When my father was diagnosed with cancer I decided to have it made into a book to give to him for Christmas. I also dedicated it to my mum as without her I wouldn't have even been able to write this biography.