Authors

Terri Sinclair (Curin) lives in Dunedin, New Zealand. She is a long-time reader and book lover. Terri has made a career from writing in a range of communications, marketing, publishing, and digital media roles. Follow Me In is her first novel.

Josh Morgan (Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, Te Whanau-a-Kai) lives in Wellington with the author Sacha Cotter, their family and a vast hoard of picture books. Josh grew up in the mighty Manawatu, spending his school days drawing silly things in the back of his exercise books. He now works as an illustrator creating pictures for books, TV and animation. He still draws silly things as an adult, but mostly on bills and meeting notes. Isobel Te Aho-White (Ngati Kahungunu, Ngai Tahu) grew up a bit quiet and shy in a large family. She loved stories and storytelling, especially about history and folklore, and was very much an outdoors kid, taking inspiration from nature. She always knew she wanted to be an illustrator, and now she tells visual stories through her art and children's books, which embrace her close connection to her whakapapa and to nature. Ross Calman (Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa-ki-te-tonga, Ngai Tahu) is an author, editor and licensed translator. He is the translator and editor of He Pukapuka Tataku i nga Mahi a Te Rauparaha Nui | A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha by Tamihana Te Rauparaha, and co-author of Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi (with Mark Derby and Toby Morris) and more. Margaret Sinclair has worked in publishing in New Zealand and the UK for many years. Early on she trained as a primary school teacher but quickly turned to the world of books, thinking - mistakenly as it turned out - that books couldn't be unruly or disruptive. She loves it.

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Abbey and Money Singh are The Modern Singhs, social media celebrities based in Auckland. In 2019 a video of their traditional Punjabi wedding went viral on YouTube, and they started their channel, called The Modern Singhs, which quickly gained 1.3 million subscribers. Creating joyful videos is now the couple's full-time job, with a mission to celebrate love, culture and bringing families together. They live on the North Shore with their two children.

Anendra Singh started his journalism career on completing his tertiary studies in Suva, Fiji. He two-fingered his way with a typewriter through the stone-subbing era before emigrating to New Zealand in 1988, following the military coup in his birth country the year before. With his father working under coup leader Sitiveni Rabuka’s ministry as a senior civil servant, the journalist made a life-defining decision to carve a niche in the NZ media landscape. This maiden book is an extension of his love of writing. As a casualty of the pandemic, the redundant scribe lets his mind run wild during the lockdown last year. With bullying rife in the NZ workplace, he wove a riveting plot countless people may identify with globally. He also has entered the ‘intriguing’ world of freelance writing to keep alive his love for written words.

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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.