Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic.
Jackson grew up in Auckland and now lives in Wellington. She has an MA from the University of Auckland and a DPhil from Oxford University. She is currently an associate professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington. [1]
Her poems were first published in the collection AUP New Poets 1 (AUP, 1999) and she has since published a number of collections of poetry, as well as writing and co-editing works of literary criticism, essays, short stories and book reviews for publications in New Zealand and overseas. [2] Much of her poetry explores the ideas of family and childhood. [3] Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published several collections of poetry. [4] The Gas Leak was reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature. [5]
Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems, published by Auckland University Press, was reviewed on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon programme on 3 April 2018. [6]
Thicket by Anna Jackson was reviewed in the Listener magazine, [7] and in takahē magazine. [8] I, Clodia, and Other Portraits was reviewed by Cordite Poetry Review, [9] and Landfall. [10]
She has received a number of awards for her work, including a 1999 Louis Johnson New writers’ Bursary, the 2001 Waikato University Writer in Residence, the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 2015, and a 2017 residency at the Michael King Writers Centre. [11] In 2018 she was a winner of Viva la Novella VI with The Bed-making Competition [12] .
Her work includes the following: [13]
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