Authors

Kellie Byrnes is a children’s author, freelance writer, kidlit blogger and book reviewer. Her first picture book, Cloud Conductor, was published in 2018 and she's had three more picture books released since then. Her next book is How Do You Love?: The Five Ways We Show We Care. Aśka is an energetic visual storyteller and a science communicator who is a passionate advocate of visual literacy. She has illustrated ten published books, makes comics, and is a regular contributor to The School Magazine and other children’s publications.

Anthony Byrt is one of New Zealand's foremost writers on contemporary art, and a regular contributor to Artforum. In 2013, he was Critical Studies Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, and in 2015 was New Zealand's Reviewer of the Year. His first book, This Model World: Travels to the Edge of Contemporary Art (Auckland University Press, 2016), was a finalist in the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

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Octavia Cade is a New Zealand writer with a PhD in science communication. She attended Clarion West 2016, has won four Sir Julius Vogel awards for speculative fiction, and is a Bram Stoker nominee. She was the 2020 writer in residence at Massey University.

Born in New Zealand in 1961, Bernard Cadogan is an accomplished poet, philosopher and historian. Since 1996, he has worked as a political advisor and speech writer, in particular as the NZ prime minister’s foreign affairs adviser, and has been a consultant to the New Zealand treasury since 2011. He was appointed an honorary advisor to the Māori king in 2015. He is especially interested in the philosophy of Paul Ricœur, John Rawls and Charles Taylor, and his current focus is on postcolonial thought, the formation of empires, and the resilience, relevance and viability of small nation states. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University on the political thought, constitutionalism and racial policy of Sir George Grey (1812–98) in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Bernard lives in the Cherwell Valley, near Oxford, with his wife Jacqueline and their children.

Paul Caffyn is acknowledged as one of the greatest living sea kayakers, with first kayak circumnavigations of NZ, Great Britain Australia, Japan, New Caledonia, around the entire coastline of Alaska, four northern summers in Greenland and his last paddle was down the Antarctic Peninsula. This PNG book is his 7th book. A trilogy or earlier books describe the New Zealand circumnavigation while the year long Australian paddle in described in 'The Dreamtime Voyage'. Paul's books are self published under Kayak Dundee Press. www.paulcaffyn.co.nz

It is nearly 25 years since his first scuba dive, but Paul Caiger has been chasing fishes in streams and rockpools long before that. This naturally led to university studies in marine biology, which ultimately culminated in a PhD in the evolutionary ecology of New Zealand triplefin fishes. These were followed by post-doctoral positions in the USA researching fish acoustics and deep-sea fish biology. Dovetailing with Paul's science background has always been the creative outlet afforded by photography, and with it the ability to capture the briefest of moments in a fish's life. After a return to New Zealand and the University of Auckland, Paul is currently the diving officer at the Leigh Marine Laboratory and works on a wide range of marine research projects, as well as producing numerous scientific manuscripts and reports on fishes, and many magazine articles for the general reader.