Authors

Nutrition Coach. Healthy Food Ambassador. Teacher. Author. Cat Lover. Recovered Yo-Yo Dieter. A certified Health and Nutrition Coach, Michelle Yandle is also an international speaker with IISB, successful entrepreneur, Empowered Eating(TM) coach and two-time author with a focus on traditional diets for health, and nutrition coaching for Empowered Eating(TM). Originally from Canada, Michelle received her bachelor degree at Dalhousie University, Halifax while later achieving a graduate degree in education at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. She then furthered her education with a graduate certificate through the school of Holistic Performance Nutrition and certificates in health and nutrition coaching from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and Cadence Health in New Zealand. Michelle's health advice has featured in such magazines as Nadia Magazine and Healthy Food Guide. She has been a guest blogger at AwesoME Inc(R) - where this series on Gentle Nutrition was first published, as well as Ecostore, Elephant Journal, NZ Woman and more. She has also been a guest on The Hitz Radio and The AM Show, a regular feature in local and national newspapers and is an author and National Ambassador for Nuzest New Zealand. AwesoME Inc(R) is your starting point to creating a healthier and happier you. We know that when crisis hits having skills that build up our resilience can be a life-saver. We bring together a team of passionate and professional people with a purpose to create a happier and healthier world. The aim is to help people enhance their happiness and well-being, with resources, tools, and techniques based on positive psychology, including gratitude journals and resilience training for adults and children. Gratitude, mindfulness, exercise and nutrition are all ways you can build resilience and help you keep focused, positive and calm in the face of adversity. We want to empower individuals to create happiness in their own lives, and to reach people, with our amazing resources and tools, to help them do just that. Change Your Thoughts. Change Your Perspective. Change Your Life.

Grace Yee is a poet, writer and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work has appeared in Overland, Island, Meanjin, Southerly, Westerly, Rabbit, Cordite Poetry Review, The Shanghai Literary Review, Women's Museum of California, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, and Best of Australian Poems 2021, and Best of Australian Poems 2022, among others. In 2020, Grace was awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, and the Peter Steele Poetry Award. She was a Creative Fellow at the State Library Victoria (2019-21), where she researched early settler Chinese Australian histories for a collection, Joss: A History (forthcoming). Her debut collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo Publishing) began as part of her PhD thesis on settler Chinese women’s storytelling (University of Melbourne). In 2024, Chinese Fish was awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, and the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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A lover of Aotearoa's wildlife and wild landscapes from earliest childhood, Anna Yeoman fell in love with lizards when she began volunteering at Mokomoko Dryland Sanctuary in Central Otago five years ago. After studying science communication at the University of Otago, she started to write about New Zealand's geckos and skinks for magazines including New Zealand Geographic and North & South. She now works as a ranger at the sanctuary, and in her spare time adventures in the outdoors with her husband Ollie and their young family, and looks for lizards. This is her first book.

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David Young is one of New Zealand’s most respected environmental authors, who has published widely in essays, articles, magazines and books. His recent books include: Faces of the River: NZ’s living water (with Bruce Foster) (1986); Our Islands, Our Selves: A history of conservation in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2004); Woven by Water: Histories from the Whanganui River (Huia, 2006); Whio: Saving New Zealand’s endangered blue duck (Craig Potton, 2006) and Rivers: New Zealand’s shared legacy (Random House, 2013).

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Jane Young is a science educator and freelance writer. Her publications include 'The Uncertainty of it all: Understanding the Nature of Science', 'Pet Genetics: How bulldogs got flat faces and Manx cats lost their tails', and 'Fuelling Dissension: Coal and coal mining in 21st century New Zealand'. Jane’s editing assignments have ranged from 'Catlins Birds: a pocket guide' to 'Te Awa', the Green Party magazine. She also produces an environmental newsletter, 'Kārearea: Protecting a Southern Land'.

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