Capital Trees

Susette Goldsmith is of Ngati Mahanga and Pakeha descent and lives in Wellington. She is an independent writer and editor of non-fiction and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington where she gained her PhD. Her scholarly research explores new ways of perceiving, interpreting and safeguarding natural heritage in twenty-first-century Aotearoa New Zealand, and her current focus is on our arboreal heritage. She has edited many museum, art gallery and scholarly books and monographs and, as a qualified and experienced journalist, has written articles and regular columns for diverse publications. She has published three social histories: The Gardenmakers of Taranaki, Tea: a potted history of tea in New Zealand and Suzy’s: a coffee house history, and edited and contributed to the essay collection Tree Sense: ways of thinking about trees.