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. 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.