Authors

essa may ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa, Highgate, Na Guinnich) is the author of this book. Their first book, ransack, was published in 2019. They will write until they’re dead.

Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa, Tūhoe, Ngāpuhi, Waikato) is the first female Māori Emeritus Professor from a university, with degrees from the University of Auckland and University of Waikato. An Emeritus Professor, she has worked as a curator, lecturer, critic, researcher and governor in the heritage and university sectors. She is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Fellow of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. She has returned to the pā, and serves on the Paepae Tapu o Ngāti Whakaue. She loves cats and chocolate.

Rebecca ter Borg is a freelance illustrator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. As a young girl living in Rotorua, Rebecca’s ambition was to be ‘a starving artist living in an attic’. Luckily she is not starving and lives on a ground-level house in Auckland with her two daughters, but she still loves drawing as much as she did back then. She enjoys making gigantic designs for walls and is also drawn to flowers and bees and the smallest inhabitants of the earth. These strands combine into colourful, tangled, dreamy artworks that depict alternative narratives to everyday life.

Kathryn van Beek is a graduate of Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters. She has won awards for her plays, short stories and illustrated zines. Kathryn’s play Indiscretions was published by Playmarket, and her first illustrated children’s book Bruce Finds A Home was published through Mary Egan Publishing.

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Jules van Costello is a wine professional, educator and writer based in Taranaki. He is the Wine Director of Cult Wine and Te Aro Wine and is a partner in four Wellington restaurants Hillside Kitchen, Daisy, The Ramen Shop and Bōl. This is his third book (but the other two are about beer so they don’t count).

Jo van Dam is the librarian at two Auckland primary schools and clearly loves books and animals. This is her fifth published title and second collaboration with illustrator Deborah Hinde. Every book to date has been about different creatures from around the world.

This is the true story of a Kiwi cop who survives the dangerous double life of an undercover agent and goes on to become New Zealand's most successful international fraud investigator.

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Sophie van Waardenberg

Raphael is an Awakening Coach, Intuitive, International Bestselling Author, and Qualified Counsellor. She supports people globally through their awakening with intuitive development and spiritual teachings grounded in counseling theory. Her mission is to empower intuitives to take charge of their healing journey.

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