Dr Judith Dell Panny is an honorary research fellow, School of English and Media Studies, Massey University. Her publications include I Have What I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame; Turning the Eye: Patricia Grace and the Short Story; The Culture Within: Essays on Ihimaera, Grace, Hulme and Tuwhare; Unfurling: Poems by Judith Dell Panny; John Bevan Ford: Paintings. Dr Panny has taught New Zealand literature at tertiary institutions in New Zealand and at two German universities. She was a guest professor at the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel. Retired from teaching, she lives with her husband Rolf in Ashhurst, Manawatu, and is the mother of an adult son and daughter. She received a CLL Award (Copyright Licensing) to research and write Plume of Bees.