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Frances Edmond is a screenwriter, playwright, non-fiction writer, former actress, and the literary executor for her mother, Lauris Edmond. Frances is led by her passion for writing stories about women and the tendrils of complex, interpersonal relationships in families. She has won numerous awards for her screenplays, including the 2017 Platinum Award at the International Film Festival of Women, Social Issues, and Zero Discrimination for her short film The Apple Tree, and the 2008 Best Short Screenplay Award at the Moondance Film Festival for her short film, Eeling. She was also the 2007 Winner of the PANZ playwriting competition for her script The Dance of Life.

Murray Edmond has published 16 books of poetry. Recenttitles include Back Before You Know (2019), FARCE (2022)and Sandbank Sonnets (2022). His book of four novellas, StraitMen and Other Tales appeared in 2015. Noh Business (2005)was a study of the influence of Noh drama on Western theatreand Then It Was Now Again: Selected Critical Writings (2014)brought together more than 30 years of criticism. In 2021 hepublished a cultural history, Time to Make a Song and Dance: Cultural Revolt in Auckland in the 1960s. He has co-edited twopoetry anthologies, The New Poets (1987) and Big Smoke: NewZealand Poems 1960-1975, and he was editor of the magazineKa Mate Ka Ora: A Journal of New Zealand Poetry and Poeticsfrom 2005 to 2020. He has been Dramaturge for Indian InkTheatre Company from 1997 to 2023. He lives in Glen Eden inAuckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand.

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Mike Edwards' career in boxing began as a novice amateur in the 1960s, training under the tutelage of George Cammick at his gym in Otahuhu. Later, Mike would become a successful trainer, working with Anthony Bigeni, the only New Zealand boxer to challenge twice for a world title, and the Australian former pro boxer Paul Murdoch. Following in his father's footsteps, Mike became a boxing promoter in the 1980s, with his inaugural match, Lance Revill against Monty Betham Snr. Mike's associations include some of the biggest names in trans-Tasman boxing, including Betham, Bigeni, Kipa, Masoe, Murdoch, Malcolm, Tetoros, Pakau, Zohs, Tafua, Revill, Barry and Parker. Even at 77, Mike still trains most days on the boxing bag and in the ring, either in his garage or at his son David's gym in Pakuranga, East Auckland.

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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.