Authors

Jennifer is a New Zealand-based writer whose life journey is a testament to resilience, transformation, and an unstoppable spirit. As a child, Dunedin-born Jennifer spent time living in France kicking off a life-long love affair with the country. An avid walker, Jennifer first joined a local walking group to meet people and explore the local countryside, while working as a language teaching assistant in Dunkerque. Thirty years later, she's hooked! A communications professional, she has worked in tourism and government roles both here and in the UK, as well as undergoing stints as a freelance travel writer. Her blog on the family's French adventure www.myparallellives.com was widely enjoyed and it was prompting from readers that led Jennifer to write a book about the family's experience: Parallel Lives: Four seasons in the French Pyrenees. Her subsequent posts about her pilgrimage adventures are widely read and it was encouragement from followers that have led Jennifer to write a book about her Camino experiences.

Nicola Andrews (Ngāti Paoa, Pākehā) is a poet, librarian and educator who grew up in Waitākere and currently works as a librarian in San Francisco. Their poetry has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets anthologies, and they are the grateful winner of the 2023 AAALS Indigenous Writers’ Prize in Poetry. Most of their poems were written in the company of a very spoilt Siamese cat, with Overseas Experience being their first full-length poetry collection.

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Angela began writing in the mid-1980s, and she is the author of six previous books. For more than 12 years she took care of her husband, who had dementia. Following on the international success of Dealing Daily with Dementia, and How to Communicate with Someone Who Has Dementia, she here turns her focus to the wider questions of the brain’s development.

Teresa Angell is a freelance photographer. A passionate action photographer of wildlife and dogs, Teresa has spent four years photographing and researching the vibrant and passionate Siberian Husky and sled dog racing community in New Zealand, from the top of snowy mountains to the middle of forests at dawn and everywhere in between. Teresa is a member of the New Zealand Institute of Professional Photographers (NZIPP), the Photographic Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) and the Kapiti Coast Photographic Society (KCPS), with a decade of experience photographing wildlife and dogs in action. Teresa was awarded an acceptance and highly commended for images in the PSNZ Central Regional Exhibition 2017, acceptance in the PSNZ National Exhibition 2018, and acceptances in the National Photojournalism Competition 2020. Teresa lives in Raumati Beach with her husband and when not immersed in her projects enjoys time with family and friends, walking on the beach, mountain biking and riding her motorbike.

He toikupu, he kaiwhakatutu hoki a Dr Maya Angelou-ko ana kupu tana rakau, ko te kaikiri, ko te kuare me te ahikauri ana tino hoariri. Ko te tino rongonui pea o ana tuhinga, ko I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), he pukapuka haukiri i korerotia ra tona ano whanaketanga, tae atu ki te pangia ona e te kaikiri, e te tukino, me tana whai ki te whakatinana i tana mana motuhake. E hia ke nei nga tohu i whakawhiwhia ai ki a Angelou i te wa i a ia, tae atu ki te Presidential Medal of Freedom i te tau 2010, me te BET Honors Award for Literary Arts i te tau 2012. He rite tonu tana tuhi korero mo te kaikiri, mo te tohe, mo te whai ora, mo nga wheako hoki o te wahine me te kirimangu, ma roto i tona reo ahurei, i ona whakaaro atamai, me tana tohungatanga ki te tuitui i te whakatuma me te whakatoi, i te aroha me te riri. No te tau 1928 whanau mai ai te manu whati mahanga nei, a, no te tau 2014 rere atu ai ki tua o te arai.

Dr Jean Annan’s '7 Dimensions: Children’s Emotional Well-being' reflects the multiple perspectives she has encountered on children’s develop¬ment through her broad experience with young people. She has worked as an educational psychologist, university lecturer, researcher, teacher, leader and systems facilitator in educational settings. In recent times, Dr Annan has supported school staff to integrate positive psychological practices into their everyday school programmes. This facilitation has focused on the integration of pro-active, nurturing practices designed for all children as well as the establishment of additional support for those young people who are in most urgent need. '7 Dimensions: Children’s Emotional Well-being' builds on Dr Annan’s diverse publica¬tions in professional journals and books, the underlying theme of which has been the notion that if complex situations are rendered meaningful, they are easier to manage and positively redirect.

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Bruce Ansley has spent much of his life in the South Island. He was raised in New Brighton, Christchurch, and has lived in Dunedin, Christchurch, the Marlborough Sounds and Golden Bay. He has grown up with the south's people, its cities, towns, rivers, mountains, bush and plains. He has picked tobacco in Motueka, been a commercial fisherman in Fiordland and a deer farmer on Banks Peninsula. He has worked in radio, television and newspapers in the south too. For almost a quarter of a century he was the Christchurch-based writer for the New Zealand Listener magazine, until he became a full-time author. As a writer, tramper and traveller, and being professionally nosey, he has poked into many corners of the island, although nowhere near all of them: he finds the south and its people endlessly fascinating. He now lives on Waiheke Island to be close to his family, but his heart remains in the south. Down South is his eleventh book.

James Antoniou is a Melbourne-based writer. He writes for both children and adults. For several years he worked for The Children's Bookshow, a UK-based theatre tour of children's writers and illustrators, which inspired him to write his own picture books. Nikki Slade Robinson has illustrated over sixty children's books and readers, including several for Duck Creek Press that she has written and illustrated, including the award-winning Muddle & Mo series and The little Kiwi series.

Hana Pera Aoake (Ngaati Mahuta, Tainui/Waikato, Ngaati Hinerangi) is an artist and writer based in Waikouaiti on stolen Kai Tahu, Kati Mamoe and Waitaha lands. They are keen to restart the land wars and love eating kaimoana and defacing colonial property.