Daryl Gregory is of Waikato -Tainui
Pare Waikato – Ngāti Whaawhaakia
Pare Hauraki – Ngāti Maru
Nō Ngaruawahia ia

Daryl and Rose have been married for 33 years, have a 27-year-old son and have been active in small faith groups over those years.

Daryl has worked in the health and social services field, particularly in the areas of  abuse and family violence in the community. He has also worked with inmates in local prison as well as the sexual abuse unit. He currently is involved with a national group of clinicians in the area of suicide. His work has  been mainly within the Māori population primarly working with men and their whānau. He is the founder of He Waka Tapu in Christchurch.  www.hewakatapu.org.nz

Daryl has also spent many years working with faith based communities around the above issues, running Treaty of Waitangi workshops and fostering better understanding of Te Ao Māori / Wairuatanga.

Rose is of Scottish and English descent, was born in Wellington and raised in Christchurch.

She retired in 2016 but was a secondary school teacher all her working life. She taught English, with special interest in drama, for the first half of her career. Later, she added a second major (Te Reo Maori) to her degree and taught Maori language in a number of schools in Christchurch. She also completed a Bilingual Teaching Diploma as part of on-going professional development.

Rose has always enjoyed writing and is an author of poems and short stories. She has contributed to radio, to reading development material for schools and is currently working on a series of children’s fantasy chapter books.