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AUTHOR: Peter Butler - Author of two non-fiction titles: Opium & Gold, the story of the early Chinese goldminers in NZ and Life & Times of Te Rauparaha - the story of the famous warrior as told by his son Tamihana. His first novel, Gravel Roads, was published in 2010 and was well reviewed. He lived for many years on a bush block near the Heaphy Track, and still has a farm there growing horopito commercially, though he now lives in Nelson. His first job in the Bay was working on the Heaphy Track for the Forest Service, so he knows it well. He also knows what native flora and fauna can be used for, which is incorporated into the story. He is the Chair of the Farewell Wharariki HealthPost Nature Trust, helping to restore 12,000 hectares at the NW tip of the South Island.

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Gina Butson has worked as a lawyer and as an advisor in the public sector. She completed her MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) in 2023, and her short fiction has been published in Newsroom, Salient and Turbine / Kapohau. Gina won the Salient Creative Writing competition and was Highly Commended in the Sargeson Prize in 2024. She has been awarded a 2026 residency at the Robert Lord Writers Cottage.

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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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