Anna Jackson is the author of seven collections of poetry as well as Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries 1915-1962 (Routledge, 2010) and Actions & Travels: How Poetry Works (Auckland University Press, 2022). She lives in Island Bay, Te Whanganui-a-Tara, and is associate professor in English literature at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Dougal McNeill teaches in the Literary and Creative Communication programme at Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington, and is active in the Tertiary Education Union. He is co-author, with Charles Ferrall, of Writing the 1926 General Strike: Literature, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2015), editor of Harry Holland's Robert Burns: Poet and Revolutionist (Steele Roberts, 2016) and, most recently, author of Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Fiction (Otago University Press, 2024). Robert Sullivan (Ngapuhi, Kai Tahu) is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently Hopurangi--Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka (Auckland University Press, 2024), as well as a graphic novel and an award-winning book of Maori legends for children. He has also co-edited anthologies of Maori and Polynesian poetry. He is associate professor of creative writing at Te Kunenga ki Purehuroa - Massey University and has taught previously at Manukau Institute of Technology and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.