Caren Wilton is a Wellington-based writer, editor, oral historian and wannabe documentary filmmaker. The author of short-story collection The Heart Sutra (University of Otago Press, 2003), and of assorted journalism, fiction and book reviews, she is

Joan Rosier-Jones was born in Christchurch and has lived in London, Wellington and Auckland, and now lives in Wanganui. She started her working life as a teacher and after her first novel, Cast Two Shadows, was published in 1986 she combined the two

Devonport resident Helen Sword is a scholar, teacher, artist and poet who has published widely on modernist literature, higher education pedagogy, digital poetics, and academic writing. Born and raised in Southern California, she is now an Associate

Andie Palmer is a linguistic and legal anthropologist conducting research on comparative legal systems and cross-cultural miscommunication. She was based at the Michael King Writers' Centre to write up a week of testimony from the Te Paparahi o Te Ra

Tracy Farr's novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt was published by Fremantle Press in July 2013. Tracy completed the first draft of the manuscript while she was a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre in 2009. The work is a fictional

Paul Diamond (Ngāti Hauā, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi) is a writer, historian and broadcaster. After working as an accountant for seven years, he switched to journalism in 1997. Paul's journalism has been recognised with Qantas Media Awards, Peace Awards a

UK-born Jill Marshall is best known as the author of the Jane Blonde spy series for children, published by Macmillan. Jane Blonde books are sold in the UK, Australasia, France, Italy, Poland and Hungary, with one title chosen as a special book for Wo

Ann Beaglehole was born in Hungary and came to New Zealand with her parents in 1956 after the Hungarian uprising against the former Soviet Union. Much of her writing has been about refugee experiences and displacement. Her novel Replacement Girl was