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p.d.r. lindsay is passionate about words, feels the loss of people like Shakespeare , those who wrote the King James Bible, poets who made words dance, like Gerard Manley Hopkins. She's published over 100 short stories, 3 anthologies and 4 novels.

Author and Artist: memoh.

Author and Artist: memoh.memoh. (yes, all lowercase with the full stop) is an award-winning digital artist and comiker based in Auckland, New Zealand. A professional graphic designer by day, she has crafted visual identities for numerous national and international brands. By night, her fantasy-romance comic "Dominion" explores the battlegrounds caused by trauma, bias, and the seductive desire for control.

essa may ranapiri (Ngaati Raukawa, Highgate, Na Guinnich) is the author of this book. Their first book, ransack, was published in 2019. They will write until they’re dead.

Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa, Tūhoe, Ngāpuhi, Waikato) is the first female Māori Emeritus Professor from a university, with degrees from the University of Auckland and University of Waikato. An Emeritus Professor, she has worked as a curator, lecturer, critic, researcher and governor in the heritage and university sectors. She is a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, a Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Fellow of the Auckland War Memorial Museum. She has returned to the pā, and serves on the Paepae Tapu o Ngāti Whakaue. She loves cats and chocolate.

Rebecca ter Borg is a freelance illustrator based in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. As a young girl living in Rotorua, Rebecca’s ambition was to be ‘a starving artist living in an attic’. Luckily she is not starving and lives on a ground-level house in Auckland with her two daughters, but she still loves drawing as much as she did back then. She enjoys making gigantic designs for walls and is also drawn to flowers and bees and the smallest inhabitants of the earth. These strands combine into colourful, tangled, dreamy artworks that depict alternative narratives to everyday life.

Kathryn van Beek is a graduate of Victoria University’s Institute of Modern Letters. She has won awards for her plays, short stories and illustrated zines. Kathryn’s play Indiscretions was published by Playmarket, and her first illustrated children’s book Bruce Finds A Home was published through Mary Egan Publishing.

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Jules van Costello is a wine professional, educator and writer based in Taranaki. He is the Wine Director of Cult Wine and Te Aro Wine and is a partner in four Wellington restaurants Hillside Kitchen, Daisy, The Ramen Shop and Bōl. This is his third book (but the other two are about beer so they don’t count).

Jo van Dam is the librarian at two Auckland primary schools and clearly loves books and animals. This is her fifth published title and second collaboration with illustrator Deborah Hinde. Every book to date has been about different creatures from around the world.