Authors

Nikki Addison is from West Auckland, New Zealand. She has a Master of Arts in English and began her career as a magazine journalist. She loves cats, coffee and hiking, and her hero is Barack Obama. The inspiration for The Year I Turned Thirty came after she quit her job and embarked on a seven-month road trip across the United States in 2022. Many of the events in the book are based on real life.

Amy Adeney is a teacher with a special interest in Literacy education in the early years. She writes books, hosts Storytime and runs workshops as part of her mission to inspire in children a love of reading. Amy Calautti loved to draw from a young age and often made up games based around drawing to entertain her younger brother and cousins. Amy now lives with her small tribe of humans who inspire her every day.

Vicky Adin is a New Zealand author living on the North Shore of Auckland within walking distance of the beach, the coffee shops and inspiration. Three words sum up her passion in life: family, history and language. After decades of genealogical research and a life-long love affair with words (she actually enjoyed writing essays at school) she combined these skills to write poignant novels. By smoothly weaving family and history together, based on real people, with real experiences, she makes the past come alive. She is an award-winning author, whose writing has been compared with that of Catherine Cookson, and who is a recipient of a Gold Standard Quality Mark, two Indie B.R.A.G medallions and two Chill with a Book Readers' Awards for other novels.

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Jenny Sew Hoy Agnew, born in Dunedin, was raised speaking Cantonese; she didn't learn English until she started school. Graduating from the University of Otago with a languages degree, she became a high school teacher. A great-great-granddaughter of Choie Sew Hoy, and fifth generation New Zealander, Jenny has traced the history of her Cantonese ancestors from Guangdong, China, to Melbourne, Australia, to Central Otago, New Zealand. Trevor Agnew has a lifelong passion for New Zealand history. As an award-winning writer and teacher, he has had a wide range of articles and reviews published in New Zealand and Australia. He has combined his interests and skills to help honour a remarkable man in this new history.

Leonie Agnew may or may not be living in South America with a poodle named Juan. She informs us that her days are spent drinking sangrias and teaching Juan how to bark in Spanish, while trading sombreros on the black market via her iPad. However, our sources have located her in Auckland, New Zealand. They claim she is an award-winning children's author, a former copywriter, and currently moonlights as a primary school teacher. It is possible she has a tendency to make things up. This is called lying, unless you write it down - then it is pleasantly referred to as being an author.

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Sarona Aiono-Iosefa

Johanna works as a high school English teacher in the Manawatu. Some of these poems were written as part of her PhD in Creative Writing from Massey University, New Zealand. She was the 2019 Mark Strand Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in Tennessee, a fellow at the Fall Residency of the International Writers' Program at the University of Iowa in 2015, and the Visiting Artist at Massey University, Palmerston North in 2012. Johanna was the winner of the New Zealand Poetry Society International Competition (2010) and the Victoria University Story Inc. Prize for Poetry (2005), and a finalist in the 2008 Montana New Zealand National Book Awards . Thanks are also due to the editors of the publications where these poems have appeared: The Hopkins Review, Best Small Fictions, takahē, Turbine, Sport, and Rabbit. You can find out more about Johanna Aitchison's work at johannaaitchison.com.

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