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HELEn LEACH nEW zEALAnD
Helen Leach is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University
of Otago with a particular interest in the evolution of human diet and the history of horticulture. She has written a number of books including The Pavlova Story (2008) which was a Montana NZ Book Awards shortlisted title and Kitchens: The New Zealand Kitchen in the 20th Century (2014).
nICOLA LEGAT nEW zEALAnD
Nicola Legat is one of this country’s most respected publishers and editors. She is former Publishing Director of Random House (NZ), Chair of the New Zealand Book Awards Charitable Trust Board, Deputy Chair of the Auckland Writers Festival and Manager of the New Zealand architecture exhibition at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
DAVID LOnG nEW zEALAnD
Composer, producer and musician David Long is currently Composer-in- Residence at the NZ School of Music. He was a founding member of The Mutton Birds and composes for contemporary dance and film, including Peter Jackson’s
films of the last decade. He performed in the 2002 NZIAF production of The World’sWife. davidlong.co.nz
nIC LOW
nEW zEALAnD / AuSTRALIA
Christchurch-born, Melbourne- based Nic Low is a writer of Ngäi Tahu and European descent whose work has appeared in the Big Issue, Griffith Review and Art Monthly. His first book Arms Race (2014) is
a collection of short stories.
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HELEn MACDOnALD EnGLAnD
Naturalist and University of Cambridge research scholar Helen Macdonald won the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Costa Book Award in 2014 for her memoir H is for Hawk. The book, which recounts the year Macdonald spent training a goshawk in the wake of her father’s death, was hailed as a triumph and was a Sunday Times bestseller. fretmarks.blogspot.com @HelenJMacdonald
EMILY ST. JOHn MAnDEL CAnADA / unITED STATES
Emily St. John Mandel is a writer for online magazine The Millions, and the author of four novels: Last Night in Montreal (2009), The Singer’s Gun (2010), The Lola Quartet (2012) and 2014 National Book Award finalist Station Eleven. Her essays and short fiction have been anthologised in many collections. emilymandel.com @EmilyMandel
TOBY MAnHIRE nEW zEALAnD
Toby Manhire writes a weekly column in The New Zealand Herald, the New Zealand Listener’s Internaut column, and contributes to the Guardian
where he worked from 2000 to 2010. He was the editor of The Arab Spring: Rebellion, Revolution and a New World Order (2002). @toby_etc
pHILLIp MAnn EnGLAnD / nEW zEALAnD
Science fiction author Phillip
Mann set up New Zealand’s first Drama Studies position at Victoria University in 1970. He has worked internationally, including at Beijing’s New China News Agency, and has published ten novels including the Arthur C Clarke Award shortlisted and IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlisted novel The Disestablishment of Paradise (2014).
ALISOn MAu nEW zEALAnD
Well-known broadcaster Alison Mau is the co-presenter of Radio Live’s midday talkback show. Previously she was co-host of nightly current affairs programme Seven Sharp and weekly consumer affairs programme Fair Go. @Alisonmau
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