Authors

Poet, podcaster and dad Andy Dickson is passionate about words, stories and conversation and how these can be used to show people that they are valued. He lives in Otautahi with his whanau. This is his first children's book.

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Nicolas Dillon has been a full-time wildlife painter for over 30 years, building a national reputation for his ability to capture the character and life-force of the birds he repeatedly studies and observes. He was raised on a farm in Marlborough, and after travelling overseas returned to live and work on the Wairau Plains outside Blenheim, where he lives with his wife and two children.

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romesh dissanayake (Sri Lankan, Koryo Saram) is a writer from Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. His work has appeared in The Spinoff, Newsroom, Pantograph Punch, Enjoy Contemporary Art Space and A Clear Dawn: An Anthology of Emerging Asian New Zealand Writers. His first novel, When I open the shop, was the winner of the 2022 Modern Letters Fiction Prize from the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.

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Lee Dixon has worked mostly within the building trades since 1976 as a self-employed contractor, and as a truck driver based in the Texas Panhandle. He retrained as a freelance journalist in the 1990s and eventually worked as a full-time journalist, photographer and editor for a community newspaper before returning to trade work in 2001. He is a keen motorcycle enthusiast, enjoys experimenting with various art forms and loves music and dancing. Lee has five adult children, 10 grandchildren and lives in Nelson, New Zealand, with his wife Maxine.