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Coral Atkinson, Irish by birth, New
Zealander by experience, originally trained as a secondary
school teacher. She is the author of several education textbooks
that are widely used in New Zealand schools along with other
non-fiction publications. More recently she has also been
writing fiction.
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In 1999, Coral and her husband Wolfgang Kreutzer
were the inaugural winners of the Listener/ITAG web fiction
award. They now run a web design business Dancing
Tuatara.
Coral spent a number of years working in
book publishing and continues as guest lecturer oat the Whitiriea
Community Polytechnic Publishing course. She joined Daphne
Brasell Associates as promotions manager in 1991 and subsequently
worked as manager of the Lincoln University Press/Daphne Brasell
partnership and for Dunmore Press.
Coral, who herself is in mid-life, divorced
after 24 years of marriage. She has two sons of 22 and 15
years of age and has faced many of the issues highlighted
in this book. She remarried late last year.
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During that time she has held writing, editing,
management and training roles in a variety of publishing houses
and situations, including three years as tutor of the Whitireia
Publishing Course. She has run her own business as a freelance
editor and publishing consultant, on either a part-time or
full-time basis, since 1987 and has
written several small books on the publishing process along
with magazine and journal articles on various topics.
Paula moved to Christchurch from Wellington
several years ago, after the breakdown of her marriage. She
has a teenage daughter, is in a new committed relationship,
and like Coral has worked through many of the issues facing
'recycled people'.
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