Authors

Jacinta Ruru (Raukawa, Ngati Ranginui) is a professor of law at the University of Otago and co-director of Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand's Maori Centre of Research Excellence. Her extensive research considers Indigenous people's rights, interests and responsibilities to own and care for lands and waters. She seeks to disrupt colonial legal norms and inspire a more just legal system. She has multidisciplinary research collaborations around the world, including as co-author of Discovering Indigenous Lands: The doctrine of discovery in the English colonies (Oxford University Press, 2010). She has won awards for teaching, research and graduate supervision. Linda Waimarie Nikora (Tuhoe, Te Aitanga-a-Hauiti) is a professor of Indigenous studies at the University of Auckland and co-director of Nga Pae o te Maramatanga, New Zealand's Maori Centre of Research Excellence. Her specialty interest is in the development of Indigenous psychologies to serve the interests and aspirations of Maori and Indigenous peoples. She has been involved in research about Maori flourishing; tangi and Maori ways of mourning; traditional body modification; ethnic status as a stressor; Maori identity development; cultural safety and competence; Maori mental health and recovery; social and economic determinants of health; homelessness; relational health and social connectedness.

Paul Russell is a primary teacher, artist, playwright and children’s author of Grandma Forgets and My Storee, among others, with Grandma Forgets making the CBCA list of notable picture books in 2018. He is passionate about children’s literacy and building young appetites for the written word. Cara King initially studied anthropology before moving across to multimedia and starting her own design business, Caratoons. As a designer and illustrator, she has produced images for T-shirt designs, books, cards and posters. ⪦i>Courageous Lucy⪦/i> is her fourth picture book.

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James Russell is a bestselling children’s writer. He's the author of the Dragon Brothers trilogy: The Dragon Hunters (2012), The Dragon Tamers (2013) and The Dragon Riders (2014), and also the five junior fiction Dragon Defenders books. His new series - Children of the Rush, won Storylines Notable Book awards for book one and two, and book one was a finalist in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults. He lives in Auckland with his family. Biography and photo courtesy of Read NZ.

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PETER RYAN has hunted across four continents. His writing and images have appeared in the world’s premier outdoor journals, including Fieldsports, Gray’s Sporting Journal, the African Hunting Gazette, Sporting Classics, Halali, Shooting Sportsman, Field & Game Australia and The Hunter’s Journal. His essays have been translated into several languages. His previous books, Wild South and Hunting New Zealand — Parts Unknown, launched to critical acclaim. Peter lives in New Zealand’s South Island with his wife, son and daughter.

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Greg Ryan is a history professor and proctor at Lincoln University. He is a fellow of the Australian Society for Sports History and author of Sport and the New Zealanders: A History (with Geoff Watson, Auckland University Press, 2018), winner of the Australian Society for Sports History Book Award 2019; The Contest for Rugby Supremacy: Accounting for the 1905 All Blacks (Canterbury University Press, 2005), The Making of New Zealand Cricket: 1832–1914 (Frank Cass, 2003) which won the 2005 Ian Wards Prize, and Forerunners of the All Blacks: The 1888–89 New Zealand Native Football Team in Britain, Australia and New Zealand (Canterbury University Press, 1993).

James Ryan is a school student living in Canterbury. He has taken a keen interest in science, especially natural history, from a very early age. He is a member of the Canterbury Museum Explorer’s Club and is an avid collector of artefacts.