Authors

David Cohen is a Wellington writer who regularly writes about food, runs the Middle Eastern Food blog and co-wrote the cookbook Ima Cuisine with Yael Shochat. Kathy Paterson is one of New Zealand’s most experienced food writers and caterers, a former Cuisine writer, and the author of three cookbooks, the most recent being Meat & Three.

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Dr Gina Cole (MNZM) is a writer of Fijian and Pakehā descent living in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Massey University and is an Honorary Fellow of Writing at the University of Iowa. Gina has published two books, along with along with numerous works of short fiction, poetry, essays and reviews. Her debut short story collection, Black Ice Matter (Huia, 2016), won the Hubert Church Prize for Best First Book Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards in 2017. Bio and image courtesy of Read NZ.

Tara Coleman is a researcher, poet, and health advocate. In 2022 she was awarded a Marsden Grant from the Royal Society of Te Ap

Jenny Coleman is an associate professor in feminist history and Director of Academic Programmes in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University. She was head of the Women's Studies Programme at Massey 2000-11 and coordinating editor of the Women's Studies Journal 2004-09. She has published articles on a range of nineteenth-century New Zealand women's history topics, and two earlier books through Otago University Press: Mad or Bad? The life and exploits of Amy Bock (2010) and Polly Plum: A firm and earnest woman's advocate - Mary Ann Colclough 1836-1885 (2017).

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Hi, I'm Linda Coles and I write British crime novels. #GreatBritishCrime. #BritishCrimeDrama I developed the DC Jack Rutherford and DS Amanda Lacey series back in 2017 and have watched them and their colleagues grow over time, via their work as well as their personal lives. Jack, is a bit of a 'Maigret', smart and soft-hearted. And as for Amanda? Maybe a younger 'Vera', dedicated, honourable and savvy. Unlike Vera, she wears well-polished Dr. Martens boots with her sensible work suit. That should tell you something of her nature. Together the duo work on crimes in Croydon, England, usually featuring ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. I do like to give them modern cases to solve, quite often involving technology or the dark web for a bit of extra intrigue. My other series features newly licensed Private Investigator Chrissy Livingstone who is sassy, the polar opposite of her high maintenance sister Julie, and happy to get her hands dirty. And she does! I hope you get to know and love the characters as much as I do. My outdoor office is next to my vegetable patch in the north island of New Zealand where I now call home. My 'kids' consist of 6 beautiful goats, 2 cats and my husband. If you enjoy my stories, please do take a moment to write a review, they really do matter.

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Francis L. Collins is a professor of sociology at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland and has previously held positions in geography and population studies at the National University of Singapore and Te Whare Wananga o Waikato, the University of Waikato. His research encompasses a focus on the regulation and experiences of temporary migration, racism and workplace exploitation; international student mobilities; and the relationship between migration and cities. Francis is the author of Global Asian City: Migration, Desire and the Politics of Encounter in 21st Century Seoul (Wiley, 2018). Co-edited volumes include Intersections of Inequality, Migration and Diversification (Palgrave, 2020), Aspiration, Desire and the Drivers of Migration (Routledge, 2020) and Handbook on Transnationalism (Edward Elgar, 2022).

David Collins retired as a Judge of the Court of Appeal in 2024, having previously served as a High Court Judge for seven years and as Solicitor-General for six years. His first book, Medical Law in New Zealand, was published by Brooker & Friend in 1992.

Benedict Collins is a political journalist working for 1News in the press gallery in Wellington. From day dot as a reporter, he's had a strong interest in covering anything to do with illicit drugs and enforcement. He's covered punitive drug-testing sanctions applied to beneficiaries, attempts to legalise pill-testing at festivals, the 2020 cannabis referendum, and in 2018 helped expose a meth-testing scandal which revealed government, landlords and homeowners wasting hundreds of millions of dollars.

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