Authors

Having done pretty much whatever it takes to get by, John Egenes has been a musician, a saddlemaker, a submarine sailor, a dog catcher, a taxicab driver, and a university lecturer, among other things. John has ridden the freight trains he describes in

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This is the third book to have been written and published by Gerhard and Henri Egger.Volcanic Kitchens, come and join us, published in 2012 was an award winner at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Best Photography Cookbook in New Zealand and runner-up for the Australasia/Pacific section for fund-raising.A Cut Above, cooking with AngusPure, published in 2014 was an award winner at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards for Worlds Best Meat Cookbook and silver medal winner at the Independent Publisher Book Awards of America

David Eggleton is a mesmeric performance poet and writer. Of Polynesian descent, he grew up between Fiji and New Zealand. Eggleton’s many awards include PEN Best First Book of Poetry, the Robert Burns Fellowship and, uniquely among New Zealand poets, he was London Time Out’s Street Entertainer of the Year in 1985. He has been five-times Book Reviewer of the Year in the Montana New Zealand Book Awards and has also produced several documentaries, CDs and short films. In 2019, he was appointed the New Zealand Poet Laureate. Eggleton is available to visit schools through the Writers in Schools programme.

Mardo El-Noor is a hybrid creative who makes a living off creating stuff he likes, such as directing and animating commercial ads, music videos and branding content. When he's home he keeps himself busy with projects that involve interior design, upcycling and heaps of dust. He's German-born and Middle-East raised, and has called New Zealand home for 20 years. Dogs With Stories is his first foray into staged photography and writing and hopefully won't be his last. Not a dog owner himself, Mardo hopes he will have taken the leap of becoming one by the time you read this.

Ko Pārengarenga te moana, Pārengarenga is my ocean.

Dr Hinemoa Elder has lived on Waiheke Island for more than 20 years. She is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who has worked in Starship Hospital's Child and Family, and Mother, Baby Units and various community clinics. She also provides youth forensic court reports and neuropsychiatric assessment and treatment of traumatic brain injury in private practice. Hinemoa is a deputy psychiatry member of the New Zealand Mental Health Review Tribunal. She is also a Maori Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain. Hinemoa has been involved with the media for many years - a former children's TV presenter for 3.45 Live, a daily live show in the early 1990s, and then of the Bugs Bunny Show. She has had a weekly newspaper column in the Sunday Star-Times, and is often interviewed on national television and current affairs programmes about her work in mental health. You can find her on Instagram- @drhinemoa.

Chris Elder served twice in the New Zealand Embassy in Beijing, first in the 1970s when it was still Peking, and most recently as ambassador in 1993–97. He is the editor of New Zealand's China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less Than Complete Success, and Forty Years On: New Zealand–China Relations Then, Now and in the Years to Come, and two literary anthologies: Old Peking: City of the Ruler of the World and China’s Treaty Ports: Half Love and Half Hate.

Stevan Eldred-Grigg is an award-winning writer, author of some of the best-selling works of New Zealand history and of leading New Zealand novels. His works of fiction and non-fiction explore the West Coast, Canterbury, the wider South Island and the whole of New Zealand. He also writes about Samoa, Shanghai, Mexico and Australia. As a gay writer, a democratic writer, a comic writer, a satirical writer and a writer of tragedy, he takes on many topics. He is an observer and critic of inequality. Often he probes inequality by using the lens of social class. Or he does the probing by asking questions about gender and race relations. He has looked at race, gender and class in many contexts. Another context for many of his books is the body. Kiwi sex life plays a lively role in several of his novels and history books, as do drink and drugs. Although he is himself Pākehā, known to his readers as someone who looks closely at Pākehā society and Pākehā culture, he has also written about links and breaks between Māori and Pākehā as well as the lives of the New Zealand Chinese, and about the relationship between ‘White New Zealand’ and the peoples of the Pacific, above all the people of Samoa and the Cook Islands.

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Bronwyn Eley is an experienced publishing professional who spent several years as a sales leader in Australia before relocating to Edinburgh, where she is currently based. Her YA series, The Relic Trilogy was published in 2019 by Talem Press.