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Tony Chapelle has had a professional life as a historian, mainly in schools and universities in the South Pacific. Over the past few decades he has concentrated on creative writing, and has published Original Sin, a book of short stories, many of them award-winning, and a sequence of four novels for adults- Merely a Girl, The Youngest Son, A Distant Belonging, and Kindred. He lives in Palmerston North with his daughter and granddaughters. NZ Booklovers wrote of Kindred, his most recent work- 'This is a beautiful book from start to finish. It is polished and perfectly weighted . . . . So sad, and so beautifully captured by the writer.' He has been short-listed and won a number of New Zealand short story competitions and was awarded a NZ Society of Authors mentorship with Sue McCauley. Maurice Gee described the character of Chapelle's first novel as 'tough, energetic, frustrated, vulnerable and not always admirable. A thoroughly believable young woman.'

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Ian Chapman was born in 1967 in Brighton, England and trained in Visual Art. He has been an integral part of King Street Artworks in Masterton, Aotearoa New Zealand since its inception in 1997, first as a tutor and he now manages the entity.

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Ian Chapman is an author, musician and senior lecturer in the School of Performing Arts at the University of Otago, Dunedin. Forever fascinated by twentieth-century popular culture, this is his eleventh book and definitely the most colourful yet.

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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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