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Tangata Tiriti writer and teacher Annabel Wilson lives in Swannanoa. Her poetry has been published and performed in Aotearoa and overseas. Her previous works include

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Born in 1940 and growing up in the post-war years the attributes of persistence, honesty and integrity and the importance of caring for those around you were the fundamental building blocks of life. ;After attending a country school and the small newly established High School at Waitara he was involved in a series of moves through a Government office, the office of a private company and farming before attending Palmerston North Teachers College in 1960. After just over five years in the teaching profession he married and changed career going dairy farming for the next forty years.; During this time both Peter and his wife spent many years leading Christian Youth work and were involved with the local school especially when it came to the school jubilees and writing of the school’s history. Poring over old family diaries in the evenings became an absorbing occupation, at times realising at some unearthly hour of the night that it was 1970 not 1870 and there were cows to milk in the morning.; Thus a fascination with the history of the early settlement and their ancestor’s lives began. This quickly widened to the whole district and all the families that he could trace. There are some significant pa sites in the districts that have been written about and some stories of the early Maori have been recorded. The first Europeans in the district were mostly soldiers discharged from the Military and in some cases were family members.; On retirement from active farming he spent about fifteen years as a First Responder for St John Ambulance service as well as pursuing his hobby that was almost becoming a full time occupation of gathering and writing the stories of the people in the districts in which he lived.; This culminated in the publishing of several small booklets for the school jubilees and the publication of a major work on the district he grew up and taught in Lepperton in 2012 which was reprinted as a 2nd edition in 2020; “Even the Dogs Have Forgotten to Bark”.

Simon Wilson is one of New Zealand's best-known journalists. The former editor of Cuisine and Metro magazines and Auckland editor for The Spinoff, he is now a senior writer at The New Zealand Herald. He is a regular writer on urban and social issues. Professor Deidre Brown (Ngapuhi, Ngati Kahu) is an art historian and architectural lecturer. She is head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland and a governor of the Arts Foundation of New Zealand, a member of the Maori Trademarks Advisory Committee of the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand, and a member of the Humanities Panel of the Marsden Fund. In 2021 she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Aparangi. Dr Karamia Muller is a Pacific academic who lectures at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland. Her research specialises in the meaningful 'indigenisation' of creative practices and design methodologies invested in building futures resistant to inequality.

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John Wilson MNZM was raised in Timaru and Christchurch and graduated from the University of Canterbury with an MA (first class honours in history) in 1966. He went on to study in the United States, earning his PhD in Chinese history from Harvard University. After his return to Christchurch in 1974 he worked as a leader writer for the Christchurch Press and as the founding editor of the magazine of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust. He has written local histories of two Canterbury rural areas, Cheviot and Waikakahi, and of the Christchurch suburb of Addington. He has also written extensively about the historic buildings of Christchurch and Banks Peninsula. When ‘old Christchurch’ was largely demolished after the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010–11 he moved to Arthur’s Pass, where he had tramped and climbed in his youth. He was awarded the Canterbury History Foundation Rhodes Medal in 2002 and the J.M. Sherrard Award in New Zealand Regional and Local History in 1994.

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Brett Wilson lives in Hamilton with his wife, son and daughter. He is an active musician and songwriter, playing at bars and restaurants, corporate events, weddings and at Activate Church, the church he grew up in. After nearly 20 years of teaching music at tertiary level, Brett now works as Communications Co-ordinator at CBS, his brother’s Hamilton-based health IT company.