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Pat White (1944-) is a poet, essayist, memoirist and artist whose work often directly reflects his interest in rural life and the natural environment and draws on his experience living in different places around New Zealand, from the bottom of the South Island to the far north. His first collection of poetry, Signposts, was published in 1977; his most recent was Watching for the Wingbeat, new and selected poems (Cold Hub Press 2018.) His biography of poet Peter Hooper, Notes from the Margins: the West Coast's Peter Hooper appeared in 2017.
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Claire Kaahu White, who affiliates to Kāi Tahu, was born and raised in Christchurch, where she completed an English degree from Canterbury University. She has published two non-fiction histories, Not for oneself but for all and Te Ahupēhio a Hātā Maria. She has also worked on the Ngāi Tahu publications, Te Karaka as a writer and Te Pānui Rūnaka as an editor, and has had short stories and poetry published in anthologies. She is also a tutor in contemporary New Zealand art; her photographs have been exhibited in galleries and exhibition spaces throughout Aotearoa. She is currently working on a project digitising documents and photographs belonging to the Hokianga Historical Society.
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Helen White Wolf has worked internationally as a therapist, spiritual healer, intuitive, and teacher for more than thirty-five years. She is the founder of Soul Centered Healing, and Soul Coherence Therapy: leading-edge modalities in the field of Human Energy Psychology, and the author of the groundbreaking new book Transcendence: Journey of the Soul. Her healer-training programmes and Awakening the Innermost Heart workshops and intensives have been taught in New Zealand, the United States, Southeast Asia, and the United Kingdom. Helen places the awakening process at the very heart of the therapeutic work, offering an intentional space where clients and students can gain a deeper experiential connection with their non-dual nature.
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Libby Whittaker is a New Zealand doctor and writer. After growing up on the beautiful Whangaparāoa Peninsula in northern Auckland, she now lives and works in Ōtepōti (Dunedin). Libby loves writing stories for children, and her debut junior fiction novel Sunny Turner and the Deadly Bite was a finalist in the 2015 Wishing Shelf Book Awards. Eye Spyclops is her first children's picture book.
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