Jane Stafford teaches in the English programme of Victoria University of Wellington. She is the co-editor of The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature (2012), the co-editor of Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (2009) and the co-author of Maoriland: New Zealand Literature 1872-1914 (2006).
Mark Williams has edited three anthologies of New Zealand poetry—for the Caxton Press; for Oxford University Press (with Jenny Bornholdt and Greg O'Brien); and for the Russian publisher, New Literary Review. Most recently, with Jane Stafford, he edited The Auckland University Press Anthology of New Zealand Literature. He has published and edited numerous monographs, collections and articles on New Zealand writing and modern literature generally. He is on the editorial boards of several international journals, including Journal of Commonwealth Literature and Canadian Literature.
