As we pitter-patter through these pages many of you have asked for information about who we are, so here’s a peek behind the scenes.

LeafSalon is currently a labour of love for Kathy and Chris Hunter, although hopefully that will soon change to a lucrative million-dollar money-making venture. It’s a website to promote and report on the New Zealand literary scene, and to keep readers abreast of key international events.

Kathy Hunter’s background is graphic design. She’s a voracious reader, and when not ferrying carloads of children around or weeding the scleranthus, she does most of the writing for leafsalon in an inimitable stream-of-consciousness manner.

During daylight hours, Chris is Creative Director at the New Zealand office of Draft, one of the world’s top integrated marketing agencies, and by night has been instrumental in putting the website together. He also writes the odd article for print publications.

We hope this satisfies your curiosity. Keep those emails coming in – and we hope you continue to enjoy our reports of the literary goings-on in our small but remarkably literary country.