Eileen Mueller is a USA Today multi-award-winning author of heart-pounding fantasy novels that will keep you turning the page. Dive into her worlds, full of magic, love, adventure and dragons! Eileen lives in New Zealand, in a cave, with four dragonets and a shape shifter, writing for young adults, children and everyone who loves adventure. Visit her website at www.EileenMuellerAuthor.com for FREE books, new releases or to become a Rider of Fire! Awards: 2019 Two Storylines NZ Notable Book Awards - Ezaara & Dragon Hero 2017 Sir Julius Vogel Award, Best New Talent 2016 Sir Julius Vogel Award, Best Youth Novel 2017 finalist, Romance Writers New Zealand Chapter Short Story contest. 2013 winner, SpecFicNZ Going Global 2013 co-winner, New Zealand Society of Authors’ NorthWrite Collaboration New Zealander of the Year Local Hero medalist.

For someone with an English degree, Mike Reeves-McMillan has spent a surprising amount of time wearing a hard hat. He lives in Auckland, New Zealand, the setting of his Auckland Allies contemporary urban fantasy series; and also in his head, where the weather is more reliable, and there are a lot more wizards.

Matt Cowens is a high school Media Studies and English teacher. From 1999 to 2000 Matt designed, illustrated and produced card games (Dig, Mob & Cow by Matador Games, with Debbie Cowens). Matt has also written and illustrated terribly silly comics. Recently Matt has written a number of SF short stories and is the co-author of Mansfield with Monsters, a literary mashup of Katherine Mansfield stories with supernatural and science fiction elements. Named as one of the New Zealand Listener's top 100 books of 2012, Mansfield with Monsters has been warmly received by critics and readers.

USA Today bestselling author, and winner of the Wright-Murray Residency 2021, A.J. Ponder (BSc, Dip Teach) is the author of numerous novels and short stories including the award winning Frankie and the Netball Clone, Dying for the Record, The Sylvalla Chronicles, Wizard's Guide to Wellington and more. A.J. lives in a hundred year old house overlooking Wellington harbour with three cats and a family all obsessed with games, books and dungeons and dragons. A.J. has a head full of monsters, and recklessly spills them onto the written page. Beware dragons, dreadbeasts, taniwha, and small children—all are equally dangerous, and capable of treading on your heart—or tearing it, still beating, from your chest. You can find A.J. at ponderbooks.com, Amazon and Facebook,

Over the course of my career, I have been pleased to call myself an educator, entomologist, heritage interpreter, and an agroforestry extension agent, among other things. Through it all, I have written stories and poetry for my own pleasure. I published my first writing as a child in the 1970s, and used to confound my science teachers with poetry, scribbled at the end of essay questions. Now, after completing several novels, and having a number of short stories and poems published I'm happy to call myself an author. My first love was the natural world, and it plays a large part in most of my stories. I have been fortunate to be able to explore the outdoors in much of the eastern United States, Canada, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Bolivia, Peru, and New Zealand. I currently live near Christchurch, New Zealand with my husband, two children, four goats, three chickens and one evil cat.