Authors

Peter Thomas, a former teacher at Hamilton's Hillcrest High School, wanted to see what his father, NRW Thomas and others played in the campaign. see: howtosaveaforest .com

Yvette Thomas was born in Los Angeles and has lived most of her life in Aotearoa New Zealand. She has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland (2023). In 2022 Thomas won the Caselberg International Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Not What You Wanted’, which featured in Landfall 244 (Spring 2022) and the anthology No Time To Lollygag (Caselberg Press 2023). Her short story ‘The Lost One’ was published in JAAM 19 (2003) and Pendulum (Wishbone Press, Australia, 2003). Thomas is also the winner of the Kendrick Smithyman Scholarship in Poetry 2023 and the Shimon Weinroth Prize in Poetry 2023.

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David St John Thomas was a British publisher who founded David & Charles and wrote over thirty books including For the Love of a Cat.  David’s son, Gareth St John Thomas, is the founder of Exisle Publishing. He has written other adult and children’s books including Finding True Connections.

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Gareth St John Thomas, is the founder and CEO of Exisle Publishing, based in Australia and New Zealand. Gareth has written other adult and children’s books including Finding True Connections, Grandpa’s Noises and Cats Work Like This. He divides his time between the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

Nathan James Thomas travelled for a decade before founding the digital magazine Intrepid Times, which has grown into a thriving global community. His own travel writing has been published in places like Lonely Planet, Roads and Kingdoms, Outpost Magazine, and New Zealand Memories. B.A. Van Sise is an author and photographic artist focused on the intersection between language and the visual image. He frequently undertakes public affairs projects for the United States Coast Guard, is an instructor for the U.S. Army Storytelling Workshop, and is a judge for the Army's Brumfield Mass Communications Competition.

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Paul Thomas is an award-winning novelist and columnist. He has written extensively on sport, his nine books on the subject including collaborations with All Blacks legends John Kirwan and Tana Umaga and former New Zealand cricket captain and coaching pioneer John Wright. He has been described as "the Godfather of New Zealand crime fiction" for his ground-breaking series featuring Maori detective Tito Ihaka. The Ihaka novels have been translated into several languages and published in a number of countries, including the UK and the USA.

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