A Kind of Shelter Whakaruru-Taha An Anthology of New Writing for a Changed World

Witi Ihimaera (Te Whanau-a-Kai, Te Aitanga-a-Mahaki, Rongowhakaata, Ngati Porou, Tuhoe) has had careers in literature, diplomacy and academia. He was Aotearoa New Zealand's first Maori novelist, with his novel Tangi (1973), and works as editor, essayist, filmmaker, playwright and critic. His latest book is Navigating the Stars (2020). He served for 16 years as a New Zealand diplomat, in Canberra, New York and Washington, DC. He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau. His international awards include a Premio Ostana, 2010, and a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2017. He is patron of Kotahi Rau Pukapuka Trust and, in 2022, was made President of Honour of the New Zealand Society of Authors. He lives in Tamaki Makaurau Auckland.

Michelle Elvy is a writer, editor and teacher of creative writing. Her books include the everrumble (2019) and the other side of better (2021), and she has co-edited, among others, the anthologies Ko Aotearoa Tatou We Are New Zealand (with Paula Morris and James Norcliffe, 2020) and Breach of All Size: Small Stories on Ulysses, Love and Venice (with Marco Sonzogni, 2022). Founder of Flash Frontier: An Adventure in Short Fiction and National Flash Fiction Day, she is also managing editor of the annual Best Small Fictions anthology and is currently editing, with Vaughan Rapatahana, a collection of New Zealand multilingual microfiction. She grew up on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and now lives in Otepoti Dunedin.