Dr Anne Else, MNZM, is an independent researcher and author based in Wellington, with a wide range of local and international publications over the last forty years. In 1991 BWB published her important first book, A Question of Adoption: Closed Stranger Adoption in New Zealand 1944–1974. In 2023 it published a revised and expanded online edition (see link). Written with Maria Haenga-Collins, it includes seven ground-breaking new chapters providing a comprehensive account of creating and transferring children through the related processes of adoption, state care, donor conception and surrogacy. Anne lives in Te Whanganui a Tara; her previous book was The Colour of Food: A Memoir of Life, Love and Dinner (2014).