About the Author

Duncan Greive is a journalist and editor. After initially concentrating on music journalism, he began writing sports features for magazines in 2005, winning Canon Awards for his profiles of unconventional basketball player Dillon Boucher and teenage golf phenomenon Lydia Ko. He now runs the sports and culture website The Spinoff, and lives in Auckland with his wife, Nicola, and three children, Jett, Robyn and Vivienne.