Authors

Michael Van de Elzen is one of New Zealand's best known chefs, having starred on a number of television shows, most recently TVNZ's Eat Well for Less. Michael started his career in the food industry at the age of 14, working in some of Auckland and London's best restaurants, and has owned several of his own over the years. He has published six cookbooks, including the bestselling Food Truck Cookbookand Molten.

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Andrea Vance is a senior journalist at Stuff. Born in Northern Ireland, she worked in the Press Gallery at the New Zealand Parliament for nearly a decade, first with Stuff and then TVNZ. She spent seven years as an investigative journalist with the News of the World and was night news editor at the Scotsman. She is a Press Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge.

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Latika Vasil was born in India and moved to Wellington, New Zealand as a child. Her fiction has been published in anthologies and magazines, and broadcast on radio. She has also published a book of short fiction called Rising to the Surface. She enjoys walking in forests and taking photographs. She lives on top of a hill with her partner and a white and tabby cat called Bella. The World I Found is her first YA novel.

Michelle Vasiliu has been a teacher and youth-worker among many roles working with children. She is now an award-winning children’s and YA author who writes sensitive, serious, sometimes sad stuff. She likes to help her readers understand and make sense of their world. Gwynneth Jones drew all through her maths book at school, so left to study art at TAFE and then majored in Plant and Wildlife Illustration at university. Since then, Gwynneth has been imagining, drawing and exhibiting.

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Coral Vass is an award-winning author and ambassador for Reading Out of Poverty who is passionate about giving all children an equal opportunity to read.  Nicky Johnston is an illustrator, teacher and presenter, aiming to inspire young children to use their imagination and develop their own ideas.