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Madeleine Eskedahl was born in Sweden, living in New Zealand for the last thirty years. She's married and has two daughters as well as Archie, the family's West Highland Terrier, and loves to live close to the beach, in a rural community. Having been fortunate to grow up in a small village on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea, this particularly resonates with her, and she very much remains an islander at heart. As well as writing crime novels, Madeleine is passionate about conservation and enjoys being a 'penguin ranger'. This job includes regular monitoring of the korora, the little blue penguin and their nesting sites along the coast where she lives.

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Since graduating from the University of Otago Medical School in 1957, Eric Espiner has been at the forefront of endocrinology both in New Zealand and worldwide. He has received numerous awards and authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications. He has also been heavily involved with training, teaching and mentoring both endocrinologists and research scientists. Now, in his tenth decade, when not dreaming of the next research project, he can be found hiking, biking or striking tennis balls. He also restores perspective through a lifelong passion for classical music of all genres.

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Kate Evans is an award-winning journalist and nature writer from New Zealand. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Observer, Scientific American, National Geographic, Undark, and BioGraphic. She is a regular contributor to New Zealand Geographic magazine and has won multiple national media awards for science and environmental journalism and feature writing. She has also worked as a television producer and video journalist for the BBC, ABC, TVNZ, and the Washington Post, reporting from West Africa, Indonesia, the Whanganui River and the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.

Jane is a parent of 23 years, unschooling her three children who are now adults. As a writer, musician, experienced primary and music teacher, tramper and permaculturalist she has woven her own passions into life alongside the children as they have grown. Now having time to spend doing exactly what she wants, unschooling advocacy is near to her heart, along with adventuring and inspiring others to dream big.

Jeff Evans is a writer and photographer based in Auckland. He has written several books relating to waka, including Nga Waka o Nehera, Polynesian Navigation and the Discovery of New Zealand and Waka Taua: The Maori War Canoe. Between them, these books recall Maori migration traditions, describe navigation skills used by Maori to voyage between the islands in the central Pacific and New Zealand, and introduce the reader to waka taua. Jeff's most recent book was Heke-nuku-mai-nga-iwi Busby: Not Here by Chance (Huia, 2015). In 2020 he was awarded a summer residency at the Michael King Writer's Centre to work on this book.

Patrick Evans is the author of five novels, including the acclaimed trilogy of Gifted, The Back of His Head and Salt Picnic, and a number of plays. His other books include The Penguin History of New Zealand Literature (1990), The Long Forgetting: Postcolonial Literary Culture in New Zealand (2007), An Inward Sun: The Novels of Janet Frame (1971), and Janet Frame (1977). He taught New Zealand literature and creative writing at the University of Canterbury until 2016.

Kim Evans is the creative genius behind the Little & Friday cafes in Auckland. A sculptor by training, she is a self-taught cook who started selling home-baked goodies at the Takapuna Market. The demand quickly grew to the point that she needed a commercial-sized kitchen, which she sited in a disused shop in Belmont. Before long she added a shop counter and opened first one, then two, then four days a week. Within a year it got so busy she took over the shop next door and became a fully-fledged six days a week cafe. Now she has two bustling Little & Friday cafes open in Newmarket and Ponsonby and a never-ending stream of adoring customers.