Hill & Hole

Kyle Mewburn was born in Brisbane and travelled in Europe and the Middle East, before settling in New Zealand in 1990. He writes for children and has been a full-time writer since 1997.

Mewburn won the Joy Cowley Award in 2005, presented by Storylines Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand for the development of a picture book text. He has also won both the Picture Book Category and the Children's Choice Award at the 2007 New Zealand Post Book Awards for Children and Young Adults, for his book  Kiss! Kiss! Yuck! Yuck!.

His book Old Hu-hu won the 2010 New Zealand Post Children’s Book of the Year Award.

Vasanti Unka is a graphic designer and illustrator who works from her home office. She enjoys every aspect of design but has a definite bias towards book publishing.

Vasanti finds great joy in continuously finding new ways of expression within the constraints of the book format through illustration and design. As a New Zealand-born Indian she has a particular penchant for combining bright colours.