Rob Kidd is an award-winning court reporter and books editor for the Otago Daily Times. He was named Regional Journalist of the Year at the 2022 Voyager Media Awards and won the ODT's Valpy Award for excellence in 2019 and 2020. Rob was the panel convener of judges for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2022 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.