in profile: rosemary mccloud

Rosemary McLeod has had a long career in print and broadcast media, has won major awards for journalism and is currently a newspaper columnist.

Her vintage domestic textile craft collection has been exhibited nationally. Her book Thrift to Fantasy: Home Textile Crafts of the 1930s-1950s won the history category of the Montana Book Awards in 2006. 

She won the Pen Best First Book of Prose award in 1976 for her satirical novel A Girl Like I, illustrated with her own drawings, and formerly illustrated her own columns in The Listener and North & South.

in profile: anna crichton

Anna Crichton is the five-time winner and two-time finalist in the New Zealand Qantas/Canon Media Editorial Artist Award (and as yet the only woman to win it).

She is a regular contributor to the New Zealand Herald, Metro,The Listener and more, and has worked internationally for The New York Times, The Wall St Journal, Time Magazine, The Bulletin and The Australian.