Authors

Sheena Cameron is an experienced primary, secondary and tertiary educator known for her pragmatic approach. She is a highly regarded literacy expert, author of many teacher resources and popular professional development presenter in Australia, New Zealand and internationally. In 2021 she was given a Member of NZ Order of Merit for services to education.  Louise Dempsey is an experienced teacher, consultant and trainer who has worked in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. She facilitates literacy training and school-based professional learning and has completed a range of writing projects for NZ and internationally.

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Garth Cameron is a lawyer, author and pilot who lives in Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand. He is the author of From Pole to Pole: Roald Amundsen’s Journey in Flight and Umberto Nobile and the Arctic Search for the Airship Italia. This is his first novel.

Kate Camp is the author of seven collections of poems, including The Mirror of Simple Annihilated Souls (winner of the 2011 NZ Post Book Award for Poetry) and How to Be Happy Though Human: New and Selected Poems (2020). She was born in 1972 and lives in Wellington.

Alistair Te Ariki Campbell (1925–2009) was born in Rarotonga and came to New Zealand at the age of eight. His mother, Teu (née Bosini), came from the remote atoll of Tongareva (Penrhyn) and his father, Jock (John Archibald Campbell), was a successful trader from Otago, who emigrated to the islands in 1919 after service in the Gallipoli campaign. In his 60-year writing career, Campbell was the author of 20 collections of poems, as well as novels, plays and an autobiography. Campbell received many honours, most notably the New Zealand Book Award for Poetry (1982), the Creative New Zealand Pacific Arts Committee Senior Artist Award for Literature (1998), an Honorary DLitt from Victoria University of Wellington (1999), and a Prime Minister’s Award for Literary Achievement (2005). In 2005 he was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

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Duncan Campbell studied Mandarin in Malaysia after graduating in English and History from Victoria University of Wellington. Between 1976–78, he was a student in the People’s Republic of China. Since then, he has taught (Chinese language, modern and classical; Chinese literature, modern and classical; and aspects of Chinese history and civilisation) at the University of Auckland, Victoria University of Wellington, and the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2015, he was the Curator of the Chinese Garden with the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, USA. His research focuses on the late imperial period of China’s long history. Brian Moloughney After completing an MA in Chinese history from the University of Canterbury, Brian Moloughney had the good fortune to be awarded a CHEP scholarship, which enabled him to live and study for a period in Nanjing. Between 1993 and 2022 he has taught Chinese history at the University of Otago.

Hamish Campbell has been a professional geologist in New Zealand for more than 30 years and is best known for his role as geologist and science commentator. Alan Beu and James Crampton are both paleontologists, Liz Kennedy is a paleobotanist and Marianna Terezow works as a photographer specialising in geology and paleontology.    

Mary Maringikura Campbell’s poetry collection titled Maringi was published in 2015 and awarded the Earl of Seacliff Poetry Prize in 2017. She has been writing poetry and songs since age 13 and has appeared in Kapiti Poems and other journals and anthologies. She has written and performed folk songs, been a member of the drama group Te Ohu Whakaari, and has had her poetry translated into Māori and Italian. The Auckland Folk Festival awarded her first prize in 1991 for her song ‘Missing’ for Karla Cardno, a murdered girl, who died in 1989. She is a daughter of the poets Alistair Te Ariki Campbell and Meg Campbell. In 2011, Mary co-curated (with Peter Coates) the Alistair Te Ariki Campbell Exhibition at Pataka Museum in Porirua, which toured to the Cook Islands.