An archivist by day and an author by night, Jared Davidson is an award-winning writer based in Lower Hutt, Aotearoa New Zealand. Through history from below, Jared explores the lives of people often overlooked by traditional histories – from working-class radicals of the early twentieth century to convicts of the nineteenth. He is currently the Research Librarian Manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
Credit: Hagen Hopkins
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