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John Ta ne Christeller grew up in Upper Hutt. His mother, Flora, was a pioneer potter and his father, Gerald, sang professionally, but while John made art for pleasure, science became his career. He studied plants and insects at DSIR, and his research interests took him to Japan, the US, UK and France for extended periods. He went on to learn te reo at Te Wa nanga o Aotearoa and Patua Te Taniwha. John lives in Palmerston North with his wife, Donna.
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Tim Upperton is a poet, reviewer, teacher and blogger who has published three poetry collections. His first book, A House on Fire, was published by Steele Roberts in 2009. His second poetry collection, The Night We Ate The Baby, was an Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist in 2016. In his third poetry collection A Riderless Horse (AUP, 2022) Tim stands in the everyday and then runs with it with poems of acid wit, intimations of loss and unexpected resolution.
Oscar Upperton’s first poetry collection was New Transgender Blockbusters (VUP, 2020). In 2019 he was awarded the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writer’s Bursary. His work has been featured in Sport, The Spinoff, Metro and Best New Zealand Poems.
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