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Historian, academic, writer, literary scholar, linguist, poet and literary translator, Associate Professor Karin Speedy has published extensively on transnational, colonial and anti-colonial Pacific and Francophone history and literature, as well as Creole languages, slavery and forced labour and African and Indian Ocean diasporas in the Pacific. In addition to her scholarly writing, she is a published writer of creative histories, particularly in the form of poetry. 'Foundations' is her first memoir/literary non fiction novel. Karin was born in Auckland, New Zealand and lived for many years in Paris and Sydney where she taught at the Sorbonne (Paris IV) and Macquarie University respectively. She returned home to Aotearoa a few years ago and now lives in Wellington with her daughters, partner and two cats. In recognition of her major contribution to knowledge of French language and culture in the Pacific, she was awarded the John Dunmore research Medal in 2013. In 2022, she commenced her Marsden Fund project, 'When colonial worlds connect: trans-imperial networks of forced labour between the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the untold stories of Reunionese Creoles in Oceania'. Karin holds an honorary Visiting Research Fellow position at the University of Adelaide and is a full member of the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and the Professional Historians' Association of New Zealand/Aotearoa (PHANZA).

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Former "Board" staff, authors Ali Spencer and Mick Calder spent a combined 78 years working in and alongside the New Zealand red meat sector witnessing the New Zealand red meat sector's evolution. Spencer went on to become a PR consultant in the UK/Europe and New Zealand and a writer and editor. Co-author of Meat Acts, Calder became secretary of the North-America based New Zealand co-operative the New Zealand Lamb Company.

Constanze Spengler is an author and illustrator living in Hamburg, Germany.Katja Gehrmann writes and illustrates children’s books. She studied illustration in Mexico, Spain and Hamburg, Germany, where she now lives.

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In a former life, Olivia Spooner worked as a Community and Hospital Pharmacist in Auckland, Wellington and London. As a health professional, she met many people from all walks of life, and discovered that listening to a patient or caregiver's story is one of the most powerful medicines anyone can prescribe. For the past fifteen years, she has pursued her passion for writing alongside raising three children and running her own business. Luckily, as owner-operator of gorgeous independent bookstore, The Booklover, she's able to indulge in her love of books and reading, and still carve out time to write.

Distinguished Professor Paul Spoonley is one of New Zealands leading academics and a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi. He has led numerous externally funded research programmes, has has written or edited 25 books and is a regular commentator in the news media. In 2010, he was a Fulbright SeniorScholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and in 2013, a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Goettingen. He was awarded the Royal Society of New Zealand Science and Technology medal in 2009 in recognition of his academic scholarship, leadership and public contribution to cultural understanding and in 2011, his contribution to Sociology was acknowledged with the Sociological Association of Aotearoa New Zealands scholarship for exceptional service to New Zealand sociology.