Paula Morris MNZM (Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Whatua) is the author of eight novels and the long-form essay On Coming Home. She is the editor of The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories. An associate professor at the University of Auckland, where she convenes the Master of Creative Writing, Paula is the founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature, and serves on the boards of the Coalition for Books, the NZ Book Awards Trust, the Māori Literature Trust and the Mātātuhi Foundation.

Haru Sameshima was born in Shizuoka City, Japan, and immigrated to New Zealand in 1973. He completed an MFA (1995) at Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland. Sameshima has exhibited and published widely in New Zealand and his images illustrate some of New Zealand’s most significant art and craft publications. He has his own publishing imprint, Rim Books, and runs his Auckland studio, Studio La Gonda, in partnership with Mark Adams.