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Authors Clive Akers, Adrian Hill and Campbell Burnes are New Zealand's foremost rugby writers, historians and statisticians. Akers has been a co-editor of the Almanack since 1995. He was joined in 2014 by Adrian Hill and in 2019 by Burnes.

Authors Clive Akers, Adrian Hill and Campbell Burnes are New Zealand's foremost rugby writers, historians and statisticians. Akers has been a co-editor of the Almanack since 1995. He was joined in 2014 by Adrian Hill and in 2019 by Burnes.

Dr Dorothy Urlich Cloher

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Tina Clough grew up in Sweden and lives in New Zealand. Writing is slotted in between translating and editing medical research papers and looking after an acre of fruit trees, vegetable gardens and hens.

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Geoff Cochrane (1951–2022) was a poet and fiction writer who was born in Wellington and lived there almost all his life. The author of nineteen collections of poems, two novels, a novella, and two collections of short stories, he was the recipient of an Arts Foundation Laureate Award, presented as part of the 2014 Westpac New Zealand Arts Awards. He was awarded the Janet Frame Prize for Poetry in 2009, and the inaugural Nigel Cox Unity Books Award in 2010.

Anna Coddington (Ngati Tūwharetoa, Te Arawa, Ngati Whakaue) is an award-winning New Zealand songwriter, singer and producer, with four critically acclaimed studio albums to date. In 2022 she won the Waiata Maori Music Award for Best Maori Album in Te Reo for her EP Mana-Wa-Hine, featuring a collection of waiata performed in te reo Maori. Her songwriting prowess has seen her in the prestigious Silver Scroll songwriting award Top 20 list four times. She also has an MA in Linguistics, is currently studying for a law degree, and is a professional voiceover artist - so she justifiably considers herself a word nerd! A mother to two children with her partner Dick Johnson, also a musician, Anna's writing for children carries a deeper mission of spreading awareness of kaupapa Maori. Story Hemi-Morehouse (Ngati Koata, Ngati Toa Rangatira) was born in Auckland and moved to Australia when she was young. She was always obsessed with comics and drawing and turned her love of illustrating into a career. Story's first published book, Mokopuna Matatini/The Greatest Festival on Earth written by Pania Tahau-Hodges, was shortlisted for four awards in the New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2022. She has since illustrated several more books. Story lives and works on the Gold Coast, Australia and, thanks to the flexibilty of freelance work, also gets to spend regular time in Aotearoa.

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