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ADAM DUDDING NEW ZEALAND
Award-winning feature writer Adam Dudding reporter for Stuff. My Father's Island, a memoir about his late father the literary editor Robin Dudding, won the Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction at the 2017 Ockham NZBook Awards. @adudding
KATE DUIGNAN NEW ZEALAND
Writer and teacher Kate Duignan
is the author of Breakwater and 2018 novel The New Ships. Her work has been widely published in journals and anthologies including Landfall, Sport and The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories. @KateMDuignan
MEGAN DUNN NEW ZEALAND
Megan Dunn has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she graduated with distinction. A former video artist who also writes widely on visual art, her rst book, Tinderbox, was published in 2017. megandunn.org @MeganDunn90
LISA DWAN IRELAND
Actor Lisa Dwan is one of the world's pre-eminent performers of the works of Samuel Beckett. Currently a 2017- 2018 distinguished artist-in-residence at Columbia University, her book, A Body of Beckett is due for release in late 2018. Supported by Culture Ireland. @lisadwan
DAVID EAGLEMAN UNITED STATES
New York Times bestselling author and Stanford professor David Eagleman is a neuroscientist, writer and television presenter. His books include The Brain, Incognito, story collection SUM, and The Runaway Species and he is
a Guggenheim Fellow and a World Economic Forum council member. Supported by The Creative Thinking Project. eagleman.com @davideagleman
STEVAN ELDRED-GRIGG NEW ZEALAND
Writer and historian Stevan Eldred- Grigg’s is the author of Ockham NZ Book Awards longlisted Phoney Wars: New Zealand Society in the Second World War. His other books include Oracles and Miracles and Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes. eldred-grigg.com
EMMA ESPINER NEW ZEALAND
Medical student, journalist
and essayist Emma Espiner is a medical student at The University
of Auckland. She comments on
social issues, health, and politics for Newsroom, and contributed the essay ‘We’re All Ma-ori Now for Volume 2’ of the Journal of Urgent Writing. @emmawehipeihana
MOANA ETE NEW ZEALAND
Of Kai Tahu and Samoan heritage, Moana Ete studied performing arts at Te Kura Toi Whakaari o Aotearoa and has since pursued acting and music. She is the lead singer of the band A Girl Named Mo and features in Fly My Pretties on their latest album String Theory. @MoanaEte
PATRICK EVANS NEW ZEALAND
Patrick Evans is the author of ve novels including Gifted, The Back of His Head and, most recently, Salt Picnic, shortlisted for the 2018 Ockham NZ Book Awards. For many years he taught NZ Literature at the University of Canterbury.
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