Selected Contributors:

Barbara Anderson was a science teacher and medical technologist for many years before returning to university to read English. Since then she ahs published sex novels and two volumes of short stories. She lives in Wellington with her husband.

Lauris Edmond was one of New Zealand’s most distinguished poets. She died in January.

Charlotte Grimshaw was born in New Zealand and currently lives in Auckland. Her first novel Provocation (Abacus) was published in 1999 and her second novel Guilt (Abacus) followed earlier this year.

Bill Manhire’s most recent books are a volume of poems, What to Call Your Child (Auckland, 1999), and a collection of essays and interviews, Doubtful Sounds (Wellington, 2000). He is director of the creative writing programme at Victoria University of Wellington.

Vincent O’Sullivan was widely published as poet, fiction writer and playwright. He has edited several anthologies of New Zealand writing, and The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield for the Clarendon Press. He is director of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University, Wellington.

Elizabeth Smither is a poet and fiction writer. Her work includes a collection of short stories, The Mathematics of Jane Austen, and more recently a new collection of poems, The Lark Quartet (Auckland University Press).

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