Michael Brown works as Curator, Music at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. He has written on various aspects of New Zealand music and culture. In 2015, he collaborated with artist Mat Tait on the graphic fiction The Heading Dog Who Split in Half: Legends and Tall Tales from New Zealand (Potton & Burton, 2015). Norman Meehan is a Wellington-based composer, pianist, writer and teacher. His many releases include five collaborations with the vocalist Hannah Griffin and Bill Manhire and other poets. He is the author of Time Will Tell: Conversations with Paul Bley, Serious Fun: The Life and Music of Mike Nock and New Zealand Jazz Life. Robert Hoskins is a retired academic. He is the series editor of a number of musical projects and has published on colonial balladry, eighteenth-century English music, and Robert Louis Stevenson's Pacific writings. His most recent book is Memories of Early Years: Douglas Lilburn (Steele Roberts, 2015).