Authors

Stephen Whitwell is a retired pastor who has written several books. He lives in Tauranga. He and Wendy have two children and eight grandchildren.

Diana Wichtel is a revered name in New Zealand letters.

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Cora-Allan Wickliffe is a multi-disciplinary artist and curator of Maori and Niuean descent. A contemporary practitioner of the Niuean tradition of barkcloth known as hiapo, she is credited with reviving the "sleeping artform" which has not been practised in Niue for several generations. Her work is very important to the Niuean community and has been exhibited in Australia, Aotearoa, England and Niue. She has already had a sell-out exhibition in New Zealand and her work is in the collections of Te Papa and Auckland Museum. Wickliffe has a Masters in Visual Art and Design from AUT.

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Kim Wildman is a journalist and photographer. Derry Hogue is the former foreign editor for the Australian Financial Review.

Anna is a trained social worker, born in New Zealand. She is currently completing a degree at the University of Otago, and works in mental health. In her spare time she loves hiking, music, travel and everything creative.

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Damien Wilkins has published novels, collections of short stories and a book of poems. He has written for television and theatre. He also writes and records his own songs as The Close Readers. His work has won several awards, including, for The Miserables (1993), the New Zealand Book Award. He lives in Wellington, where he is the Director of the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University.