Helen Rickerby is a New Zealand poet, writer, editor and publisher. In 2020, she won the Mary and Peter Biggs poetry prize at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. [1]
In 1995, she was part of the group that founded JAAM literary journal. From 2005 to 2015 she was co-managing editor, with Clare Needham, of the journal. [2] [3] Since 2004, Rickerby has run Seraph Press, a small publishing company based in Wellington, New Zealand. [1]
John Z. Robinson is a New Zealand painter, printmaker, and jeweller. He has lived in Dunedin, New Zealand since 1978.
Riemke Ensing is a Dutch-born New Zealand poet. She has published and edited numerous books and is notable for synthesising European and New Zealand influences in her work.
Tungia Dorothea Gloria Baker was a New Zealand actor, weaver, and administrator. Her notable acting roles included Ngahuia in the 1980s television drama Open House and Hira in the 1993 film The Piano. Baker was influential in contemporary Māori theatre, Māori film making and Māori arts. She named the Taki Rua Theatre, and was a founding member of Māori artists' collectives Te Manu Aute and Haeata.
Jack Ross, is a New Zealand poet, novelist, translator, editor and lecturer in creative writing. A trilogy of novels has been published by two different publishers, Alan Brunton's Bumper Books and Titus Books.
Sir Vincent Gerard O'Sullivan is one of New Zealand's best-known writers. He is a poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, critic, editor, biographer, and librettist.
Rachel Phyllis McAlpine is a New Zealand poet, novelist and playwright. She is the author of 30 books including poetry, plays, novels, and books about writing and writing for the internet.
Muriel Helen Deem was a New Zealand medical doctor, medical officer, Plunket medical adviser and university lecturer.
Fiona Dorothy Pardington is a New Zealand artist, her principal medium being photography.
Brannavan Gnanalingam is a New Zealand author and practicing lawyer with the New Zealand firm Buddle Findlay at its Wellington office.
Helen May Leach is a New Zealand academic specialising in food anthropology. She is currently a professor emerita at the University of Otago.
Nancy Tichborne is a New Zealand watercolour artist. She specialises in paintings of flowers; her work has appeared on calendars, diaries, cards and postage stamps in New Zealand.
Avenal Beryl Elizabeth McKinnon was a New Zealand art historian and writer. She was the founding director of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Te Pūkena Whakaata.
Ruth Cleland is a New Zealand artist, based in Auckland. Her works are held in the collection of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Cleland is known for her photo-realist paintings and pencil drawings of suburban landscapes, and her abstract grid works. Cleland lives in Auckland with her husband and fellow photo-realistic artist Gary McMillan.
The St Helens Hospitals were maternity hospitals located in seven New Zealand cities. They were the first state-run maternity hospitals in the world offering both midwifery services and midwifery training. The first hospital opened in 1905 in Wellington and the last one in Wanganui in 1921. The services of the St Helens Hospitals were gradually incorporated into other hospitals and the last hospital to close was in Auckland in 1990.
Regan Gentry is a New Zealand artist and sculptor. He has held a number of artist in residence positions and his work can be seen in public spaces throughout New Zealand. His artworks are often constructed from recycled or repurposed items such as gorse bushes and road safety barriers.
Denis O'Connor is a New Zealand-based ceramicist, sculptor, and writer who has exhibited both in New Zealand and internationally.
Helen Pearse-Otene is a New Zealand Māori playwright, film actor, author and psychologist. She is affiliated to Ngāti Rongomaiwahine, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāpuhi, Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kuri and Ngāti Ruanui iwi.
Mary Varnham is a New Zealand writer and publisher. She was a Wellington City Councillor from 1998 to 2001.
Louise Menzies is a New Zealand artist based in Auckland. Her works are held in the Auckland Art Gallery collection.
Judith Shelby Siers is a New Zealand writer and historian. In 2008 she won a Montana New Zealand Book Award.