Otherhood Essays on Being Childless, Childfree and Child-Adjacent

Alie Benge (she/her) is a New Zealand writer who lives in London. She was the essay editor for takahe and has been published in The Spinoff, Turbine Kapohau, Pantograph Punch and more. She was joint winner of the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition. Her debut essay collection, Ithaca, was published in 2023.

Kathryn van Beek (she/her) is the author of two children's books and the short story collection Pet (2020), which is also available as a podcast. Her work has appeared in Overland, Landfall, takahe, Newsroom, The Spinoff, Sunday Star-Times and MiNDFOOD. She contributed to Misconceptions, a web series about miscarriage available on the New Zealand Herald website. Kathryn was the 2023 Robert Burns Fellow.

Lil O'Brien (she/her) is the author of Not That I'd Kiss a Girl (2020), a beloved Kiwi memoir about coming out during her years at Otago University, among other things. Lil is currently working on the screenplay of Not That I'd Kiss a Girl with South Pacific Pictures. She's an award-winning freelance copywriter by day, and has had essays published in takahe, The Spinoff and more.