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CHRIS DAVIES CURTIS was born in Yorkshire, England and trained to be a nurse in Birmingham. She married Londoner Ken and they moved to the British Channel Isle of Sark. After several years of running their guest house and smallholding and nursing, they travelled to New Zealand, touring in a Bedford van and working for two years from Cape Reinga to Stewart Island. Returning to live in NZ Chris became a rural district nurse. After her marriage ended she returned to Sark to 'the love of her life.' After he died, she immigrated to NZ and took a creative writing course, starting to write. Website www.chrisdaviescurtisbooks.com

Sir Toby Curtis (Ngāti Rongomai, Ngāti Pikiao) had a distinguished teaching career before lecturing at AUT University. After retiring to Rotoiti, Rotorua, he led the Te Arawa Lakes Trust for 16 years, among many other roles. Sadly, he passed away before this book could be published. From a farming background, Lorraine Berridge McLeod was an early childhood teacher and then a lecturer in education in Aotearoa and later the United Arab Emirates. A long-time friend and colleague of Sir Toby’s, she lives in Urenui, Taranaki.

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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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