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After starting with a medical publisher and then Oxford University Press, Harriet Allan worked at Penguin Random House and its earlier iterations for nearly 35 years. She edited and produced books of all genres for both adults and children before becoming fiction publisher, in which role she published numerous award-winning novels and literary nonfiction titles, working with some of New Zealand’s pre-eminent writers. In the course of her employment, she also wrote several titles.

Vivienne Allan was born in Invercargill. Formerly a journalist, she is the author of several books about New Zealand and New Zealanders, including, Go Home and Cook a Meal: A biography of Mollie McGrade Clark; Nurse Maude: The first 100 years; A New Way of Living: The history of the Spinal Injuries Unit in Christchurch, and Creating a Legacy of Social Housing: The story of Housing New Zealand's five-year repair and rebuild programme following the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes in Christchurch and greater Canterbury. She lives in Christchurch.

ROSETTA ALLAN is a writer of prose and poetry. Her work is widely anthologised, and she has published two volumes of poetry, Little Rock (2007) and Over Lunch (2010). Her first novel, Purgatory, was published by Penguin in 2014 and was selected by Apple Books as one of the best reads of that year. Rosetta has received the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award, the Metonymy Best Poem Award, a South Pacific Pictures Emerging Writers' Lab internship, a Sir James Wallace Master of Creative Writing Scholarship, and a Michael King Writers Centre Emerging Writers Residency, and was the 2019 University of Waikato & Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence. In 2016, she was the first New Zealander to take up the St Petersburg Art Residency, located within the Museum of Nonconformist Art in Russia where she spent time researching her second novel The Unreliable People.

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Robin Allison earned a degree in architecture at the University of Auckland in 1987 and had her own practise in sustainable architecture for many years, while raising two sons as a solo-mother. In 1995 she initiated the project to develop Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood. As the Development Coordinator she was intimately involved in the entire development and construction phase from 1999 to 2008. Earthsong remains her home, and she now writes, teaches and consults around New Zealand to inspire and support thriving connected communities. Her workshops and seminars on cohousing have been a catalyst over the last six years for groups all over New Zealand, from Whangarei to Dunedin and New Plymouth to Hawkes Bay, to start working on their own projects.

Jenny Allison is an acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist and teacher who has worked tirelessly assisting women through fertility problems, pregnancy and the postnatal period.