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A confirmed car enthusiast, Mark Webster was deputy editor of NZ Classic Car magazine when he wrote Assembly in 2001. He lives in Auckland with his partner and two daughters.

Ian Wedde is the author of sixteen collections of poetry, eight novels, two collections of essays, and a number of anthologies and art monographs. His memoir, The Grass Catcher: A Digression About Home, was published in 2014, his Selected Poems in 2017, and his novel The Reed Warbler in 2020. Wedde is the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants. Among the most recent are the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship at Menton in France (2005), a Fulbright New Zealand Travel Award to the USA (2006), an Arts Foundation Laureate Award (2006), a Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Auckland (2007), an ONZM (2010), and the Landfall Essay Prize (2010). In 2011–13 Wedde was New Zealand’s poet laureate. He was awarded the Creative New Zealand Writers’ Residency in Berlin 2013–14, and in 2014 the Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (poetry). He lives and works in Auckland with his wife, the screenwriter and novelist Donna Malane.

Christina has been helping to unlock better thinking, better content and better impact for her clients as a writer, coach and consultant since 2011. Christina has always been led by the belief that ideas, words and stories have the power to influence the world towards better - and that thought leadership is a vital vehicle for transforming passion and purpose into something even more powerful. As the founder and director of Intelligent Ink, New Zealand's first agency devoted to the practice of thought leadership, Christina has supported some of the largest brands, nonprofits, and solopreneurs in New Zealand and abroad. Today, Intelligent Ink focuses on empowering impact-driven experts to improve and evolve their thinking and leverage their ideas to lead us all towards something better. While she has helped transform dozens of thought leaders into published authors over the years, Better is the first book of her own. Christina lives in Auckland with her husband and three young boys.

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M. Darusha Wehm is the Nebula Award-nominated and Sir Julius Vogel Award-winning author of the interactive fiction game The Martian Job, as well as thirteen novels including the Andersson Dexter cyberpunk detective series and the humorous coming-of-age novel The Home for Wayward Parrots. Darusha is a member of the Many Worlds writing collective and their short fiction and poetry have appeared in many venues, including Strange Horizons, Fireside, and Nature.Originally from Canada, Darusha lives in Wellington, New Zealand after several years sailing the Pacific.

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John Weir was born in Nelson in 1935. Four collections of his poetry appeared between 1963 and 1983: The Sudden Sun, The Iron Bush, A Warning against Water-Drinkers, and Treading Water. Since then he has mainly been engaged in editing major collections of the writings of James K. Baxter, including his Complete Prose (2016), Letters (2018) and Complete Poems (2022).

Denis Welch was born in Masterton in 1946, and attended Wairarapa College and got his first job with the Wairarapa Times-Age. He has worked as a journalist most of his life, first for newspapers (including The Times of Zambia and The Times of London), then magazines. He was with the Listener for many years, notably as a political columnist during the 1980s but also at various times as deputy editor (twice), arts & books editor and writer of hundreds of feature articles about everything from sensational crime to spreadable butter. He was also the magazine's Wellington theatre critic through the 1990s. His interest in politics led to two attempts to be elected to Parliament, first for the Values Party and then for the Greens. He has had three books published so far - a novel, Human Remains; a biography of Helen Clark; and a collection of poetry, Childwood. Denis Welch is a long-time lover of Wellington, where he lives with his wife, Robin Cohen. He works as a news bulletin editor for RNZ, writes poems and has been known to sing in the shower. His affection for the pop music of the late 1950s and 1960s remains undimmed with the passing years.

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