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David White studied producing at England's National Film and TV School. By then he'd already co-produced documentary Shihad: Beautiful Machine (2012). His own documentary Meat - which introduces audiences to three farmers and a hunter - had a successful cinema release in 2017. It is one of a number of projects in which White chronicles people who kill animals, so that others may eat them. After acting in one of his own films, White went on to write, direct and co-star in 2020 romantic comedy This Town. Angus Gillies is the author of the so-called Ruatoria Killings series of non-fiction investigations. He has worked as a journalist and producer at TV3 for 20 years, and has written biographies of Matthew Ridge, Adam Parore, Justin Marshall and John Rowles.    

MIKE WHITE has had dogs most of his life, including a giveaway mongrel when he was a teenager, a puppy who was going to be drowned, and his current huntaway, Cooper, who features throughout How to Walk a Dog. They've been wonderful mates, loyal company and frequently disobedient. Some have broken his bones; all have broken his heart when they've gone.White is one of New Zealand's best-known journalists and a senior writer at North & South magazine, where he has won more than 20 national media awards, including the Wolfson Fellowship to Cambridge University. In 2013 he wrote the best-selling true crime book Who Killed Scott Guy?He lives in Wellington with his partner, Nikki, and they walk Cooper along the coast, through the bush and at the city's dog parks.SHARON MURDOCH is an award-winning cartoonist, and the first woman to regularly produce political cartoons for New Zealand mainstream media. She also draws the cartoon cat Munro, who accompanies the daily crossword in Fairfax newspapers, and has produced a book of cartoons about him called Munro: a cat, a mouse, a crossword clue.

Claire Kaahu White affiliates to Kai Tahu tribe, Kati Huirapa and Kai Te Atawhiua sub tribes. Born and raised in Christchurch, NZ where she completed an English Degree from Canterbury University. Claire moved to Hokiana in 2003 with her husband Paul and their three children. They co authored Ko Te Ahupehio o Hata Maria: One hundred years of Motukaraka church history (2010). Claire has also published Not for oneself but for all: The past 150 years of schooling in Rawene (2009). Te Huritaunga o Te Hohepa Te Kohanga Reo (2016) and Te Pou Herenga Waka o Rehua: The Story of Rehua Hostel and Marae, the First 50 years (2021). Claire has a Diploma in Applied Arts, has taught contemporary New Zealand art and has exhibited her works in museums and galleries throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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Xanthe White is the lead designer of her studio Xanthe White Design based in both Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand. The practise has worked for the last 28 years on projects across the globe including New Zealand, United Kingdom, Isle of Mann, France, Singapore, Japan and China. She has published several books on gardening and landscaping and has been involved in writing, radio and television through the years to communicate the art of gardening in a contemporary context. She is also involved in education teaching in studio classes as well as Masterclasses at an international level. She is also President of the Garden Design Society and a fellow of the organisation as well as an awarded Meritae Alumnae of Baradene. She lives in Auckland New Zealand with her husband Chris and their children Jacob and Sophie.

Pat White (1944-) is a poet, essayist, memoirist and artist whose work often directly reflects his interest in rural life and the natural environment and draws on his experience living in different places around New Zealand, from the bottom of the South Island to the far north. His first collection of poetry, Signposts, was published in 1977; his most recent was Watching for the Wingbeat, new and selected poems (Cold Hub Press 2018.) His biography of poet Peter Hooper, Notes from the Margins: the West Coast's Peter Hooper appeared in 2017.

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Claire Kaahu White, who affiliates to Kāi Tahu, was born and raised in Christchurch, where she completed an English degree from Canterbury University. She has published two non-fiction histories, Not for oneself but for all and Te Ahupēhio a Hātā Maria. She has also worked on the Ngāi Tahu publications, Te Karaka as a writer and Te Pānui Rūnaka as an editor, and has had short stories and poetry published in anthologies. She is also a tutor in contemporary New Zealand art; her photographs have been exhibited in galleries and exhibition spaces throughout Aotearoa. She is currently working on a project digitising documents and photographs belonging to the Hokianga Historical Society.

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Helen White Wolf has worked internationally as a therapist, spiritual healer, intuitive, and teacher for more than thirty-five years. She is the founder of Soul Centered Healing, and Soul Coherence Therapy: leading-edge modalities in the field of Human Energy Psychology, and the author of the groundbreaking new book Transcendence: Journey of the Soul. Her healer-training programmes and Awakening the Innermost Heart workshops and intensives have been taught in New Zealand, the United States, Southeast Asia, and the United Kingdom. Helen places the awakening process at the very heart of the therapeutic work, offering an intentional space where clients and students can gain a deeper experiential connection with their non-dual nature.