Julia Marshall, Founder
Julia Marshall grew up on a farm in Marton, New Zealand.
Julia Marshall grew up on a farm in Marton, New Zealand. After ten years in New Zealand as a journalist, she worked in Sweden for 12 years at a publisher of multi-language company magazines and web communication. She returned to Wellington in 2004 to set up Gecko Press.
Photograph © Rebecca McMillan
Rachel Lawson, Publisher-at-large
Rachel Lawson grew up by the beach in Brighton, Otago.
Rachel joined Gecko Press in 2015. She has been publishing books for almost her whole working life with roles in acquisitions, editorial, publicity and marketing. She has published fiction, poetry, illustrated non-fiction, art books and literary non-fiction before moving to children’s books with Gecko Press. For 10 years in the early 2000s, she was programme leader for New Zealand’s publishing training course.
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