Authors

Gareth St John Thomas is the founder and CEO of Exisle Publishing where his mission is to bring books into the world from voices that otherwise wouldn’t have been heard, and to give readers something with heart. His other books include Finding True Connections and Grandpa’s Noises.

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Professor Kevin Stafford is a veterinarian with an interest in animal behaviour and welfare. He is the author of several books, including Livestock Production in New Zealand. He is a fellow of the both the Royal College of Veterinary

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Alex Staines is a New Zealand poet born in Auckland in 1962. "Paper Road" is his fifth book of poetry.

Anne Noble is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most widely respected contemporary photographers; she has been at the forefront of photographic practice in New Zealand since the early 1980s. Creating bodies of work that mark sustained engagement with particular places, sites, histories, issues and, more recently, species, her images are known for their beauty, complexity and conceptual rigour and for their persistent inquiry into the ways we perceive and come to understand the natural world.

Professor Elizabeth Stanley is an internationally recognised scholar in the areas of state crime, human rights, incarceration, and social justice. Her work is highly regarded for its originality, quality, and social impact. Her books include: Human Rights and Incarceration (edited collection, Palgrave, 2018); State Crime and Resistance (edited collection, Routledge, 2013); and Torture, Truth and Justice (Routledge, 2009). Her monograph The Road to Hell (Auckland University Press, 2016) contributed to the 2018 establishment of a Royal Commission into Abuse in Care in New Zealand. Dr Trevor Bradley is a senior lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, where he teaches courses on policing and crime prevention. His ongoing programme of research focuses on plural policing in Aotearoa New Zealand, which incorporates private policing, security, and various citizen-led policing bodies. Recent projects have included an international research collaboration on intelligence-led policing, as well as work on volunteer community policing in New Zealand. Dr Sarah Monod de Froideville is a lecturer at the Institute of Criminology, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Her current research is broadly centred on harms to the environment in the New Zealand context, with a specific focus on (1) water-related harms and water security, (2) historical pollution, and (3) exploitative human-animal relations embedded into contemporary New Zealand culture. She also has an ongoing interest in the intersections between media representations, crime, and youth justice, stemming from her past work on moral panics in relation to young people.

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Cycling doyen, sports scientist and lately barista, Steve Stannard succumbed to cancer on Saturday, 30th August 2025, aged 58.

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Editors Metiria

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