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Maurice Gee is a distinguished fiction writer. He has received numerous awards, nominations and grants for his adult fiction and also for his young adult and children's books. Maurice Gee was among ten of New Zealand's greatest living artists named as Arts Foundation of New Zealand Icon Artists in 2003. His short stories and novels are well-known for their real or imaginatively reworked local settings, dysfunctional families and sketches of violence. Gee's numerous publications, and his wide readership, have contributed to his status as one of New Zealand's most significant writers.

Heather Bolton is a Melbourne-based actor who has extensive stage and screen experience. After winning a GOFTA for her role as Meg in Gaylene Preston’s 1985 debut feature Mr Wrong, she went on to feature in television series Blue Heelers, Stingers, Rush and Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, and films Illustrious Energy, Rainbow’s End and The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. Heather also writes and performs in plays for Melbourne’s Ranters Theatre.