Authors

Susannah Whaley is studying towards her PhD in Art History and works at a book shop. She has worked for an academic publisher and also assisted in the editing of an academic text. She has a longstanding love of reading and writing, particularly children’s fiction. Tatty Catty is her first children’s book. Hayley Elliott-Kernot is an emerging artist and illustrator living in New Plymouth, Taranaki. She is author of the popular Waffles series. She is the 2018 winner of the People’s Choice Award at the Taranaki Emerging Artists Awards and her first solo exhibition is taking place at the Stratford Percy Thompson Gallery August – September 2020.

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Nerys started working in kitchens when she was 16 years old. Her background is in fine dining restaurants, working for some of the best chefs in the country. She competed and won several culinary competitions early in her career. This led to her being part of Team New Zealand in 2016 for the esteemed Bocuse D’or - Asia Pacific Continental Selection. Nerys developed a passion for thinking outside of the box and thrives on the challenge of creating and adapting recipes. She started keto early 2019 and found a lack of quality, easy to follow ketogenic recipes. She started creating her own and sharing them on her website.

Heather Whelan has worked as a primary school teacher and children’s librarian. She has previously published a picture book, The Crazy Idea. Heather has also published an art book for teachers, Art Works, and has had many travel stories published in magazines within New Zealand and worldwide. Her new book, Lost, was inspired by her love of history and interest in genealogy.

Bill Whelen is an independent researcher. His interests include studying European expansion into the Pacific in the 18th century and its repercussions on the people of the Pacific, as well as the people of Europe.

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Kāpiti Coast artist Austin Whincup was born in Africa, spent his early childhood years in Kiribati and North Wales, then as a teenager came to live in Aotearoa New Zealand. The influence of the lands Austin has lived in are reflected in his beautiful artwork. In 1998, Austin painted an original set of alphabet art images on the square lids of ice cream containers as a present for his new born nephew Canon. Canon’s parents were delighted with Austin’s gift and asked Wellington storyteller and writer Moira Wairama to write a series of poems to sit alongside the paintings. This led to the creation of BasicallyDifferent which published the artwork and poems as a book titled Alphabet Art together with a set of alphabet cards featuring Austin’s artwork.

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David White studied producing at England's National Film and TV School. By then he'd already co-produced documentary Shihad: Beautiful Machine (2012). His own documentary Meat - which introduces audiences to three farmers and a hunter - had a successful cinema release in 2017. It is one of a number of projects in which White chronicles people who kill animals, so that others may eat them. After acting in one of his own films, White went on to write, direct and co-star in 2020 romantic comedy This Town. Angus Gillies is the author of the so-called Ruatoria Killings series of non-fiction investigations. He has worked as a journalist and producer at TV3 for 20 years, and has written biographies of Matthew Ridge, Adam Parore, Justin Marshall and John Rowles.