Authors

Riley Chance, whose first novel - Surveillance - was short listed for the Ngaio Marsh awards, is passionate about giving readers fast-paced, engaging novels that also provide a window into societal issues. Since being made redundant in 2001, Riley has juggled raising a family, work and life. A seasoned, but unenthusiastic, member of the precarious workforce, Riley has had a myriad of jobs - computer programmer, IT manager, consultant, project manager, mentor, lecturer and, of course, writer. When headspace allows, Riley loves to read as well as follow politics, often visiting parliament to watch question time. It is within the political sphere where society can be changed for the better (or worse) and fiction can be a catalyst for change. Visit Riley's web site at www.rileychance.com.

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Shana Chandra is a Tamaki Makaurau born writer, researcher and educator of Indo-Fijian heritage and Girmitiya descent, currently based in Limoges, France. Her writing voices the history of her displaced and forgotten indentured-labourer ancestors in their words, repairing and restoring it from beneath the empire's shadow and exploring how the violence and complexities of their indenture rooted into her life growing up in Aotearoa. After living in Japan and Naarm (Melbourne), in 2016 she completed her Masters of Creative Writing at the University of Technology in Sydney. Her writing has appeared in

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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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