Authors

Robin Allison earned a degree in architecture at the University of Auckland in 1987 and had her own practise in sustainable architecture for many years, while raising two sons as a solo-mother. In 1995 she initiated the project to develop Earthsong Eco-Neighbourhood. As the Development Coordinator she was intimately involved in the entire development and construction phase from 1999 to 2008. Earthsong remains her home, and she now writes, teaches and consults around New Zealand to inspire and support thriving connected communities. Her workshops and seminars on cohousing have been a catalyst over the last six years for groups all over New Zealand, from Whangarei to Dunedin and New Plymouth to Hawkes Bay, to start working on their own projects.

Jenny Allison is an acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist and teacher who has worked tirelessly assisting women through fertility problems, pregnancy and the postnatal period. 

Sue Allison is a journalist and award-winning freelance writer whose work has appeared in many magazines. She is author of Secrets of Small Gardens.

John Allison's previous poetry collections include DIVIDING THE LIGHT (Poems 1986-93), Hazard Press, Christchurch 1997; BOTH ROADS TAKEN, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch 1997; STONE MOON DARK WATER, Sudden Valley Press, Christchurch 1999; and BALANCE, Five Islands Press, Melbourne 2006. A PLACE TO RETURN TO, Cold Hub Press, Christchurch 2019; NEAR DISTANCE, Cold Hub Press, Christchurch 2020.

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Michele Amas (1961–2016) was a poet and actor. Born in Dunedin, she moved to Wellington in 1982 and worked as an actor and director. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at Victoria University of Wellington in 2005, winning the Adam Prize. Her first poetry collection, After the Dance (VUP, 2006), was shortlisted for the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award at the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.

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Melani Anae is senior lecturer at the University of Auckland, specialising in Pacific Studies using an anthropological lens. Her research and teaching focuses on four interconnecting strands - transnational Pacific leadership, centrality of ethnic identity for wellbeing, Pacific activism in New Zealand, and Pacific research methodologies and relational ethics.

Ashley is a New Zealand author who loves everything fantasy and romance. When she isn't writing, you'll find her wrangling her two lovely children, going on scenic walking tracks or curled up reading a tear-jerking, rip-your-heart-out book with an iced-coffee and her cats beside her.

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