Ross Calman is a freelance writer and editor, and the author of many popular works on Maori language and history - The Treaty of Waitangi, The Raupo Essential Maori Dictionary (with Margaret Sinclair) and The New Zealand Wars among them. He was also the revising editor of A.W. Reed's The Raupo Book of Maori Mythology. Of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Ngai Tahu descent, he lives in Wellington with his wife and two children.