Authors

Janet Charman is one of New Zealand's sharpest and most subversive writers. In 2008 she won the Montana Book Award for Poetry for her sixth collection, Cold Snack. In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at the International Writers' Workshop of Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2014 she appeared as a Guest Reader at the Taipei International Poetry Forum. Her collection Surrender (2017, OUP) chronicles her writing residencies in Hong Kong and Taiwan. This is her ninth collection of poetry.

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Bruce Chatfield was an author, builder, painter, musician, world traveller, and follower of the teachings of the Buddha. Born on the shores of the Whangaroa Harbour in the far north of New Zealand, he was the quiet one, forever drawing, creating games, and going on mysterious travels in the bush across the road. In his thirties, after great personal tragedy, Bruce chose a life on the road and a path of meditation. Supported by his skills as a mural artist, sign writer, singer, and builder, he journeyed widely across Australia, North and Central America, Europe, Southeast Asia and India, spending years in monasteries and other sanctuaries. Bruce handwrote his novels in battered journals while on the road. Once memorably writing 14,000 words a day, ensconced at his table at the Garden Restaurant in the town of Puri, Orissa, India. He eventually settled after returning to New Zealand, finding peace and rest at Bodhinyanarama Buddhist Monastery in Stokes Valley near Wellington. He passed away in November 2022 shortly before this book went to print.

Li Chen was born in Beijing, China, and moved to New Zealand when she was five (with her parents, not as a solo child explorer, I don't think that's allowed). She's always loved drawing and has been working as a full-time comic artist since 2012. Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat is her first graphic novel. When she's not drawing, Li likes to hang out with her cats or go on really long walks. Oh, and she drinks a LOT of tea.

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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