Authors

Dr Andrew Chen is a Research Fellow at Koi Tu - the Centre for Informed Futures at the University of Auckland, researching digital transformation and its impacts on society.

Lisa Cherrington is one of Aotearoa's most experienced Maori clinical psychologists. She has worked in Kaupapa Maori mental health services in Palmerston North and Wellington; created and taught the third year Indigenous Psychology in Aotearoa paper at Victoria University; and has contributed to cultural and clinical supervision for range of organisations including Te Tihi o Ruahine Whanau Ora Alliance. Across all roles, Lisa is driven by her passion for working with tamariki and rangatahi and utilising narrative therapy deriving from our matauranga Maori knowledge base. Sarika Rona is of Taranaki Tuturu, Te Atiawa, Ngati Maniapoto and Tainui descent. An educational psychologist, she has worked for the Ministry of Education, as a primary and secondary school teacher, and lectured and developed course content for Massey University's Master of Educational and Developmental Psychology programme. Sarika enjoys working with tamariki and whanau, with a particular interest in supporting the wellbeing and learning development of tamariki and rangatahi in various educational environments.

Catherine Chidgey is a novelist and short story writer. Among numerous awards, Chidgey received a Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998, and is a member of the Sargeson Trust. She was awarded the 2001 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, the inaugural Glenn Schaeffer Prize in Modern Letters in 2002, and in 2005 she received the Robert Burns Fellowship. Her honours also include the inaugural Prize in Modern Letters; Best First Book at both the New Zealand Book Awards; the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (South East Asia and Pacific Region); the Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards on two occasions; and the Janet Frame Fiction Prize. Biography and photograph courtesy of Read NZ.

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Joanna Cho was born in South Korea and currently lives in Wellington. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters in 2020 and received the Biggs Family Prize in Poetry.

Albert Cho is a food writer based in Auckland, New Zealand. A former model, in 2018 he launched the Instagram account @eatlitfood which quickly exploded from a friends-only audience to international prominence with over 75K followers. Albert has delighted readers everywhere with his hilarious, bitingly honest reviews and mouth-watering food photos, his culinary tours of Japan, Korea and China under the ELF banner on YouTube and, more recently, his yummy home-cooked lockdown recipes. Albert's voice is reminiscent of the best of those late, great food critics AA Gill, Jonathan Gold and Anthony Bourdain - that is, if any of them was more Korean, less straight and from Aotearoa. Yet like them, Albert has experienced his share of highs and lows in this life, including sexual abuse, drug addiction and disordered eating. Biting, pungent, salty and - yes - sweet, too, I Love My Stupid Life is his story.

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John Tāne Christeller is a print artist and a poet who writes in English and te reo Māori. He lives in Palmerston North with his wife, Donna, following a career as a plant and insect scientist that took him to Japan, the US and Europe. Fragments from an Infinite Catalogue was his first book.

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