Authors

A Duffy Books in Homes role model since 2014, author Judi Billcliff spends a lot of time visiting schools throughout New Zealand delighting students (and teachers) with her poetry performances. Judi is the author of the popular 'Granny' series of poetry books and has written numerous poetry and drama sources for teachers. Judi lives and works from her home in Hamilton. Deborah Hinde has brought many picture book manuscripts to life with her gorgeous illustrations. Titles she's illustrated include the best seller Moo and Moo and the little Calf too (Allen&Unwin, 2016) and The Spaghetti Giraffe (Flat Bed Press, 2017) a Storylines Notable Book 2018, along with her own independently published titles Hare and Hollybee Hope wants a Prickly Coat. Deborah lives and works from her home-based studio in rural Waikato.

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Greg Billington is a New Zealander who is the author of several novels. He has a lifetime of experience in business and was co-founder of an international skin care company. He has also worked briefly, in government.

Victor Billot was born in Dunedin in 1972. He has worked in communications, publishing and the maritime industry. In 2020 he was commissioned by the Newsroom website to write a series of political satires in verse. His poems have been displayed in the Reykjavik City Hall and in Antarctica.

In a career spanning 35 years, Eugene Bingham (Pakeha, Ngapuhi) has won multiple awards as one of Aotearoa's most respected investigative journalists, reporting and producing news and current affairs across newspapers, television, digital and podcast platforms. Memorable projects include the Teina Pora miscarriage of justice case, and investigative documentaries

Janet Bingham grew up in Scotland, and studied fashion design at Edinburgh College of Art. She has worked in the jeans industry since the early 1980s, designing for brands such as Lee and Lee Cooper Jeans. In 1997 she founded Bear Brothers specializing in denim household textiles, which became a best seller for iconic design retailer The Conran Shop. After emigrating to New Zealand in 2007 with her two sons, she created mens and womens denim ranges for various companies, and introduced skinny jeans to the Kiwi market. Three years ago the bears came out of hibernation and Janet relaunched the Bear Brothers brand merging her passions for household textiles and clothing, all of course, crafted from denim. In September 2019, Janet opened her first denim store in Devonport, Auckland. She has neither written nor illustrated a book before, but decided as with most things in her life - to give it a go.

Judith Binney, DNZM, FRSNZ, was the author of many award-winning histories, including Redemption Songs: A Life of Te Kooti Arikirangi Te Turuki (1995) and Encircled Lands: Te Urewera 1820-1921 (2009). Her work will appear also in Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History (forthcoming, 2012). Photographer Gillian Chaplin is a director of the Melbourne based Magian Design Studio, specialising in exhibition design around the world. After graduating from Auckland University in languages and anthropology, Craig Wallace has managed literacy and English language programmes in the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.

Hera Lindsay Bird was born and raised in Thames, New Zealand. She attended Victoria University of Wellington and then received her Master's degree in poetry from its International Institute of Modern Letters. Her first collection of poetry, the self-titled Hera Lindsay Bird, was published by Victoria University Press in 2016 and Penguin UK in 2017 and won the Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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Rowan Bishop has been writing for 30+ years, producing many bestselling cookbooks including Vital, The Vegetarian Adventure Cookbook, Rowan Bishop's Vegetarian Kitchen and many more.

DV (David) Bishop is an author and dramatist based in the United Kingdom. He has worked as a journalist, a comics editor for Judge Dredd Magazine and 2000AD, and a creative writing lecturer. Bishop has published numerous books, graphic novels, audio dramas, and works for the screen. He has won the NZ Booklovers Award for Best Adult Novel (2022), the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Dramatic Presentation (2020), been awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship by Creative Scotland (2017), and won the Page International Screenwriting Award for Best Short Film Screenplay (2007). He has also written television dramas and radio plays broadcast by the BBC.