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R. de Wolf is a Maori author from the East Coast of New Zealand. After many years living in Australia and abroad, she now lives in Turanganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne) with her husband. The Inspiration for the Spirit Voyager series, The Future Weavers is the second of six books, was people's curiosity to understand where, how and why Maori people came to Aotearoa (New Zealand). The stories are fiction but draw on aspects of history and Pasefika culture. R. de Wolf's novels incorporate themes she is passionate about - equality, empowerment, the balance of nature, the acknowledgement of ancient wisdom, and the importance of women's rights.

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Philippine-born Mark Paguntalan, under the pen name Oliver Dace, writes stories about the extraordinary

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Hua Dai was born in may 1966 in China. She is mum to Wonder Dai, her only child. Hua is also a poet, an educator, and a life-long learner. She survived the attempted murder that killed her child. She writes with deep reflection on what education, or society has not taught her about murder in intimate partner violence. She is completing her PhD in the topic as well as this memoir. She intends to use what she has learnt to help save the lives of women and children, as her way to remember her son Wonder Dai.

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Stephen Daisley was born in 1955 and grew up in the North Island of New Zealand. He has worked on sheep and cattle stations, on oil and gas construction sites and as a truck driver, among many other jobs. His first novel, Traitor, won the 2011 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Coming Rain won the Ockham Prize in 2015. Stephen lives in Western Australia.

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