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DEAN PARKER NEW ZEALAND
Dean Parker is a writer for stage, radio and screen and with Ian Mune wrote the adaptation of the comic classic, Came A Hot Friday. He will open two new plays this year, in Dunedin and Wellington respectively. Johnson, an imagined sequel to Mulgan’s Man Alone, is his rst novel.
STEPHANIE PARKYN NEW ZEALAND
Stephanie Parkyn is a former environmental scientist with a PhD in biological sciences. Her stories have been published in the 40 South Anthologies, and shortlisted for the Scarlet Stiletto and RSNZ Manhire Creative Science Writing Awards. Her debut novel is Into The World. stephanieparkyn.com
MICHAEL PARMENTER NEW ZEALAND
Michael Parmenter has had a 30 year career as one of NZ’s most celebrated dancers and choreographers.
He has choreographed, directed
and performed at home and internationally and premiered his dance opera OrphEus at the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival.
J L PAWLEY NEW ZEALAND
J L Pawley has a Masters in English and has taught and worked in libraries. She is the author of breakout YA novel Air Born, the rst in the planned series Generation Icarus. Russian and Mandarin Chinese rights have been sold and the books have been optioned for screen. jlpawley.com @jlpawley
VIVIENNE PLUMB NEW ZEALAND
Accomplished poet, playwright, ction writer and editor Vivienne Plumb is currently the Creative New Zealand writer-in-residence in Berlin, investigating her mother’s secret life in Germany as a young woman in the years before the Second World War.
JAN PRYOR NEW ZEALAND
Former Families Commissioner
and inaugural Director of the McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families, Jan Pryor has followed academic publishing with a memoir, After Alexander: The Legacy of a Son, narrating the experience of losing
a child.
CHRISTOPHER PUGSLEY NEW ZEALAND
Christopher Pugsley ONZM is a freelance historian and lecturer who has taught in NZ as well as serving as senior lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. His new book is The Camera in the Crowd: Filming New Zealand in Peace and War, 1895-1920.
JESSIE PURU NEW ZEALAND
Jessie Puru is a Ma-ori poet and mother from Auckland. She is currently the intern editor for NZ Poetry Society’s
A Fine Line. Her poetry has been published in Blackmail Press, Poetry Magazine and Landfall.
@JessiePuru
NADIA REID NEW ZEALAND
One ofAotearoa’s most evocative songwriters, Nadia Reid holds a unique place in folk music. Her debut album Listen To Formation, Look For The Signs was acclaimed both in Aotearoa and overseas as was her latest album, Preservation which The Guardian called “quietly, perfectly crafted statements from a blossoming talent”. nadiareid.com
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