Authors

Grace Yee is a poet, writer and researcher based in Melbourne, Australia. Her work has appeared in Overland, Island, Meanjin, Southerly, Westerly, Rabbit, Cordite Poetry Review, The Shanghai Literary Review, Women's Museum of California, Landfall, Poetry New Zealand Yearbook, and Best of Australian Poems 2021, and Best of Australian Poems 2022, among others. In 2020, Grace was awarded the Patricia Hackett Prize, and the Peter Steele Poetry Award. She was a Creative Fellow at the State Library Victoria (2019-21), where she researched early settler Chinese Australian histories for a collection, Joss: A History (forthcoming). Her debut collection Chinese Fish (Giramondo Publishing) began as part of her PhD thesis on settler Chinese women’s storytelling (University of Melbourne). In 2024, Chinese Fish was awarded the Victorian Prize for Literature, the Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, and the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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A lover of Aotearoa's wildlife and wild landscapes from earliest childhood, Anna Yeoman fell in love with lizards when she began volunteering at Mokomoko Dryland Sanctuary in Central Otago five years ago. After studying science communication at the University of Otago, she started to write about New Zealand's geckos and skinks for magazines including New Zealand Geographic and North & South. She now works as a ranger at the sanctuary, and in her spare time adventures in the outdoors with her husband Ollie and their young family, and looks for lizards. This is her first book.

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Jem Yoshioka is an award winning comic artist from the very real and not-at-all-fictional location of Wellington, New Zealand. She fell in love with comics because she can blend together her two loves of drawing and writing. It's been years now and unfortunately no one has been able to get her to stop, so they've given up trying (the lesson here is that stubbornness is a virtue). She lives a cozy life in a central city apartment with her black cat.

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David Young is one of New Zealand’s most respected environmental authors, who has published widely in essays, articles, magazines and books. His recent books include: Faces of the River: NZ’s living water (with Bruce Foster) (1986); Our Islands, Our Selves: A history of conservation in New Zealand (Otago University Press, 2004); Woven by Water: Histories from the Whanganui River (Huia, 2006); Whio: Saving New Zealand’s endangered blue duck (Craig Potton, 2006) and Rivers: New Zealand’s shared legacy (Random House, 2013).

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Jane Young is a science educator and freelance writer. Her publications include 'The Uncertainty of it all: Understanding the Nature of Science', 'Pet Genetics: How bulldogs got flat faces and Manx cats lost their tails', and 'Fuelling Dissension: Coal and coal mining in 21st century New Zealand'. Jane’s editing assignments have ranged from 'Catlins Birds: a pocket guide' to 'Te Awa', the Green Party magazine. She also produces an environmental newsletter, 'Kārearea: Protecting a Southern Land'.

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