Authors

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.

For many years Dave Vass was one of New Zealand's leading mountaineers, known for putting up new routes on many of New Zealand's most difficult mountains. During this period he also established and ran one of New Zealand's first canyoning businesses in the foothills of the Southern Alps near Wanaka. In 2015 he broke his neck while walking out from a climbing trip in Fiordland and has been living in a wheelchair since. He has recently completed a Master of Creative Arts at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington.

Eric Veillé was born in 1976 in Laval and studied at the Duperré School in Paris. While working as an artistic director in publishing, he decided one spring day to devote himself to writing and children’s book illustration. He has since released many books, as author and illustrator, including Encyclopedia of Grannies and My Pictures after the Storm.