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Lucie Brunellière is a graphic artist and illustrator who has created numerous books for children. She studied applied arts in Angoulême, visual communication in Paris, and at the Strasbourg School of Decorative Arts, France.

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Richard Brunton co-founded Colmar Brunton in 1981 and built it into New Zealand's best-known market research company. He retired in 2014 and has since devoted his time to writing, speaking and ministry, in New Zealand and beyond. He is also the author of the bestselling Awesome Power of Blessing and the book Anointed for Work.

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George Bryant, QSM, JP, MA(Hons), DipEd, DipTheol, AFNZIM, ATCL is one of New Zealand's leading writers on people in society, based on his experiences as a teacher, preacher, public speaker, politician and community worker. He is a member of the NZ Society of Authors and NZ Christian Writers.New Zealand 2050 is his 24th book. He has also written 23 booklets, and many articles for newspapers and magazines. George studied sociology and holds a number of qualifications in education, theology and management. A former high school principal, he is an ordained Christian minister and active member of a number of organisations.

Arachnologist Cor Vink has a special interest in the systematics of New Zealand spiders, and he has also worked on spider ecology, biosecurity and biological control. He has produced over 50 scientific articles and in 2010 he co-authored an illustrated guide to the spider families of New Zealand. Bryce McQuillan is a freelance wildlife photographer specialising in macro; spiders are his main passion. His work has featured in magazines around the world, particularly New Zealand Geographic.

Linda Bryder gained her MA (1st Class Hons) at the University of Auckland in 1980, and her DPhil in the history of science at the University of Oxford in 1985. Her doctoral thesis was published by Oxford University Press as Below the Magic Mountain: A Social History of Tuberculosis in Twentieth-Century Britain (1988). Linda held a research fellowship at The Queen’s College, Oxford, from 1984 to 1988, and was awarded a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowship in 1987. Since returning to New Zealand in 1988, Linda has taught history at the University of Auckland and in 2008 was appointed professor. She has an extensive publication list in the social history of health and medicine, including over one hundred peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and significant monographs in the history of women and children’s health, including A Voice for Mothers: The Plunket Society and Infant Welfare, 1907–2000 (2003), A History of the ‘Unfortunate Experiment’ at National Women’s Hospital (2009) and The Rise and Fall of National Women’s Hospital: A History (2014), all published by AUP. In 2014 she was awarded an inaugural University of Auckland Research Excellence Award. From 2007 to 2023 she held an honorary chair at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi. A founding editor of the Oxford journal Social History of Medicine, Linda has served on the editorial board of several international medical history journals and co-edits the New Zealand Journal of History. She is currently President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of the History of Medicine.

Jacqueline 'Rock' Bublitz is a writer, feminist, and arachnophobe, who lives between Melbourne, Australia and her hometown on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. She wrote her debut novel Before You Knew My Name after spending a summer in New York, where she hung around morgues and the dark corners of city parks (and the human psyche) far too often. She is now working on her second novel, where she continues to explore the grand themes of love, loss and connection.

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Dr Rachel Buchanan (Taranaki, Te Atiawa) is an historian, archivist, journalist and curator. She is the author of The Parihaka Album: Lest We Forget (Huia, 2009), Stop Press: The Last Days of Newspapers (Scribe, 2013) and Ko Taranaki Te Maunga (Bridget Williams Books, 2018). Dr Buchanan's archival expertise has included roles such as Curator, Germaine Greer Archive, University of Melbourne Archives, and publications in scholarly journals including Te Pouhere Korero, The Journal of Social History and Archivaria. Her writing has been translated into Maori, Farsi and French and published across Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States.