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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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Authors Clive Akers, Adrian Hill and Campbell Burnes are New Zealand's foremost rugby writers, historians and statisticians. Akers has been a co-editor of the Almanack since 1995. He was joined in 2014 by Adrian Hill and in 2019 by Burnes.  

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Lara Albanese is an award-winning author of over 20 books about science for children. She is professor of physics at the Universita degli Studi di Parma, Italy. Tommaso Vidus Rosin is the illustrator of numerous books for children and adults. He also lives in Parma.

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Anna is from Aotearoa New Zealand and has been drawing, painting, and creating all her life.