Authors

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.

Born in Germany, Selina Elison now lives on the North Island of New Zealand. She has a master's degree in international relations from the University of Leeds and a post-graduate degree in education from the University of Bristol, UK.

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Gordon Ell is a well-known writer and publisher with a life-long interest in New Zealand's natural and historic heritage. He has written more than 30 books for adults and children, and was the founder of the Bush Press. Originally from Christchurch, Gordon lives in Takapuna, Auckland.

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Buffy Ellen Gill is the founder of the Be Good Organics online store. She is a Qualified Nutritionist, Naturopath, and Medical Herbalist. She is based in Westmere, Auckland, with partner Tony, kids Mila and Torin and Burmese cats Zeus and Luna.

David Elliot is one of New Zealand’s leading children’s book illustrators. He has won many awards, including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for Snark. Elliot has an international reputation, and has illustrated for Brian Jacques’ Redwall and Castaways series, for U.S. authors T.A. Barron and Jeffrey Kluger, and for John Flanagan’s bestselling Ranger’s Apprentice series. Elliot was born in Ashburton and lives in Dunedin. David Elliot is one of New Zealand’s leading children’s book illustrators. He has won many awards, including the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award and the Russell Clark Award for Illustration at the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults for Snark. Elliot has an international reputation, and has illustrated for Brian Jacques’ Redwall and Castaways series, for U.S. authors T.A. Barron and Jeffrey Kluger, and for John Flanagan’s bestselling Ranger’s Apprentice series. Elliot was born in Ashburton and lives in Dunedin.