Authors

VANESSA CLARKSON is a registered nutritionist with over 15 years’ experience, specialising in infant, child and maternal nutrition, plant-based diets, sustainability and food systems. She holds a first-class honours degree in dietetics and a masters degree with distinction in food policy. She has worked across sectors including governments, public agencies, non-profit organisations, academic institutions and food businesses to support a transition to a healthier food system that nourishes people and the planet. Vanessa’s recipes and commentary have been widely published in national media outlets in the UK and Australia, where she has advocated for the importance of traditional foods that bring us pleasure and connection, beyond nourishment. Her first book Real Food for Babies and Toddlers won the Smallish Parenting magazine award for Best Family Cookbook. She is the mother of three boys and works, writes, cooks and grows on the beautiful Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne.

Giselle Clarkson is an award-winning illustrator whose work often focuses on the natural world. She has illustrated a range of children’s books--most recently she wrote and illustrated The Observologist--and produces comics for The Sapling.

Victoria Cleal works as a writer and editor at Te Papa. She worked on the Nature | Te Taiao exhibition and several stories for the childrens TV series He Paki Taonga and its associated book. Her first book, also based on a treasure at Te Papa, and illustrated by Isobel Joy Te Aho-White, was Whiti: Colossal Squid of the Deep, winner of the Best Childrens Book at the 2021 Whitley Awards for zoological literature. Isobel Joy Te Aho-White (Ngati Kahungungu ki te Wairoa, Rongomaiwahine, Ngai Tahu, Ngati Irakehu) is a graphic artist with a diploma in Visual Arts (UCOL) and a Bachelor of Design (Hons) majoring in illustration from Massey University. She has illustrated for Huia Publishers and the School Journal (Lift Education), as well as several of the stories for the childrens TV series He Paki Taonga and its associated book.

Farrell Cleary was born in Kaikoura in 1948 to James and Hilary Cleary (nee Lovett); his siblings are Brigid, Joanna, mark and Gabrielle. Farrell has lived in Hamua, Fairlie, Oamaru, Auckland, Melbourne, Paris, London, Barcelona, Turin, Kumamoto, Aix-en-Provence and Tsu. He met Yuko Takahashi in 1982; they married in 1984 and live in Mt Eden.

Cleave, Paul (1974 - ) is an award-winning New Zealand crime writer from Christchurch. His ten internationally bestselling novels have been translated into over 18 languages. Cleave received numerous awards for his crime writing and has been shortlisted here and overseas, having won the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel a record breaking three times for Blood Men (2011), Five Minutes Alone (2015), and Trust No One (2016). He regularly appears at international and national book festivals every year. Biography and image courtesy of Read NZ.

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Ivy Cliffwater is a debut writer, working fulltime on her writing and building her platform. She lives in Auckland, on the North Shore.

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Tania Clifton-Smith is a New Zealand physiotherapist who has 30 years' experience in the field of breathing dysfunction, breathing pattern disorders and hyperventilation syndrome, treating thousands of individuals. She and co-founder Dinah Bradley developed the world-renowned BradCliff Breathing method. Tania is in demand as a speaker at international conferences, now mostly on-line, due to her expertise and skills in treating Covid patients. Tania also has post-graduate diplomas in spinal manipulation, mind and body medicine, and meditation and mindfulness instruction. She is on the NZ Asthma and Allergy Educational Board and is a member of the NZ Physiotherapy Business Development Advisory Group. In 2021 Tania became an Honorary Fellow of Physiotherapy NZ, the Oscars of physiotherapy and equivalent to a national knighthood within her profession. Tania joins an exclusive list to become one of only nine New Zealand physiotherapists ever to receive this honour.

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