Authors

Lucy Corry is an award-winning New Zealand writer who loves to cook, eat, read and think about food. Her work has featured in Canvas, Sunday, Your Weekend, Frankie, Cuisine, NZ Life & Leisure, Nadia Journal and Gourmet Traveller, nzherald.co.nz, Stuff.co.nz and radionz.co.nz. In 2019 she was named Food Communicator of the Year and Best Opinion Writer at the inaugural New Zealand Food Media Awards. She is the current President of Food Writers NZ and in recent years has co-authored the Ockham award winning Hiakai-Modern Maori Cuisine and written the much-loved Burger Wellington cookbook. Lucy lives in central Wellington with her husband and daughter and Cosmo the dog, who destroys all her vegetable-growing efforts on a regular basis. www.thekitchenmaid.com www.instagram.com/thekitchenmaid

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Charis Cotter is an award-winning writer and storyteller. She has worked extensively in schools telling Newfoundland ghost stories and encouraging students to collect local ghost stories from their communities. In 2013 she published The Ghosts of Baccalieu, a book of traditional ghost stories by students from Tricon Elementary in Bay de Verde. She reviews childrens books for the National Reading Campaign, Quill and Quire, Canadian Childrens Book News, and Atlantic Books Today. Charis continues to entertain children and adults with her ghost storytelling and writing workshops at schools, community centres and book festivals across Canada and the United States. Her latest storytelling presentation, The Ghosts of Grates Cove, is an hour of ghost stories from one of the most haunted places in Newfoundland: Conception Bay North, where she lives. "Born and raised in Newfoundland, Jenny Dwyer has been steeped in the region's culture her entire life. An artist and a teacher, she has received several local honours for her compelling, hyper-realistic artwork. Footsteps in Bay de Verde is her first illustrated book. She lives in Maddox Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador, in a house overlooking the sea."

Guy Cotter is a New Zealand-born mountain climber and internationally qualified mountain guide. Guy has climbed to the summit of Mt Everest five times, has climbed seven of the world's fourteen 8,000 metres peaks, and has climbed the Seven Summits. Guy is the owner of one of the world's premier mountain-guiding companies, Adventure Consultants Ltd, based in Wanaka, New Zealand. Guy also contracts to the film industry as a locations scout, mountain safety coordinator, alpine advisor and high-altitude camera operator. He is a passionate skier, rock climber and mountain biker, and has published a climbing instruction manual 'A Climbers Guide'.

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Robyn Cotton grew up in South Taranaki and studied at Massey University, before embarking on her career in the dairy industry then as a management consultant and director. Late in her career she discovered creative writing and launched A Skylark Flies and Mary & Me, both based on personal experiences. The Jibe is her first mystery story. Robyn now enjoys life on the Hibiscus Coast where she can indulge her love of sailing while exploring the beautiful Hauraki Gulf. This passion became the inspiration behind The Jibe. She is a Christian living with Parkinson’s disease and likes nothing more than spending quality time with family and friends. Her other interests include photography, travel, various sports and exploring Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment.

Jack Remiel Cottrell (Ngāti Rangi) grew up in Wellington and now lives in Auckland. His flash fiction collection was awarded the Wallace Prize for best manuscript in the University of Auckland Master of Creative Writing class of 2020. He has been published in numerous anthologies and online magazines, and his novella-in-flash ‘Latter Day Saints’ was published in 2018 by Ad Hoc Press.

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Brent Coutts is a University of Otago graduate living in Auckland. He is the author of Protest in New Zealand (2013), Re-Reading the Rainbow (2017) and Pacific History (2018), which focus on themes of social justice, identity and decolonisation. In 2009 he was awarded the Royal Society Teaching Fellowship from the Royal Society Te Aparangi, which allowed him to begin research into New Zealand soldiers' experiences during World War II.

David Coventry’s first novel, The Invisible Mile, won the Hubert Church Award for Best First Book at the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. It was also published in the UK and Commonwealth by Picador UK, and the USA and Canada by Europa Editions. It has been translated into Dutch, Hebrew, Spanish, Danish and German. His second novel, Dance Prone, was published in 2020. David received an MA in Creative Writing in 2010 from the International Institute of Modern Letters, and he was the recipient of the 2015 Todd New Writer’s Bursary from Creative New Zealand. In 2022 he completed his PhD exploring the complexities and impossibilities of living a creative life with ME/CFS – a project which was selected for the 2022 Dean’s List, and forms the basis of Performance (2024). He was the 2022 Ursula Bethell Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury.