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Nicholas Donne is a New Zealand Citizen and resides in Auckland, New Zealand. This is his first book which is a biography about his father, Sir Gaven Donne. Nicholas has lived most of his life outside New Zealand in Kenya, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United Kingdom. He returned to New Zealand in 2015. He is currently writing a second book which is a history about a theatre group in Kenya.

BROOKE DONOGHUE A New Zealand rower who has twice won the world championships in the double scull. Brooke is an Olympic silver medallist, placing second in the women's double scull event alongside boatmate Hannah Osborne at the Tokyo 2020 Games. LUUKA JONES The first female canoe slalom paddler to represent NZ at the 2008 Olympic Games. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she won a silver medal in the K1 event. Current national champion and ranked number one in New Zealand. CHRISTEL DUNSHEA-MOOIJ Bachelor of Consumer Knowledge majoring in Health Education from Holland University. Masters of Nutritional Science with Honours from Massey University. Official nutritionist for the 2021 Olympic Team.

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Lori Doody was born in St. Johns, Newfoundland in 1976. She majored in printmaking at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, in Corner Brook, and graduated in 1998. Since then she has worked at: a Japanese paper store, the artist-run centre St. Michaels Printshop, and a commercial gallery. Her primary art practise has been in printmaking, especially etching, and in 2005 she was named Emerging Artist of the year by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council. Her printwork can be found in galleries in Canada and in New York City. To date, she has published five children's books with Running the Goat Capelin Weather; The Puffin Problem; Mallard, Mallard, Moose; Paint the Town Pink; and Mr. Beagle Goes to Rabbittown. All of them have been warmly and widely praised for their playful wit, bright and quirky illustrations, and gentle sense of kindness and community. In 2021, Lori will have three new books: Catalina, and Mr. Beagle and the Georgestown Mystery (published by Running the Goat), and The Land Puffin (published by Nimbus Publishing). Lori currently lives in St. Johns with her husband and their two children.

June Dooney holds BA, BD degrees and a post-graduate diploma in journalism. She is a former radio host and overseas worker with Youth With AMission. In 1992 she received the NZ Christian Booksellers' Award for her Tears of Intercession.

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Rachel Dore has been writing all of her life, as a journalist, poet, short-story writer and mentor to others. She is also an accomplished artist. She lives in rural Manawatu.

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