Chris Price (poet)

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Chris Price
Born1962
Reading
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NationalityNew Zealand

Chris Price (born 1962) is a poet, editor and creative writing teacher. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Biography

Price was born in 1962 in Reading, Berkshire, and moved with her family from England to Auckland in 1966. [1] [2] She came from a family of great readers. [3] At secondary school, her entry in a school poetry award judged by Lauris Edmond was highly commended, and at university she took a writing workshop taught by C.K. Stead. [3]

She completed an MA (Hons) in languages and literature from the University of Auckland in 1986, and later an MA in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington. [4]

She was an editor for Reed Publishing from 1989 until 1993, [1] editor of Landfall from 1993 to 2000 and coordinator of Writers and Readers Week for the New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington from 1992 to 2004. [4]  

Her poems have been published in anthologies [5] [6] [7] [8] and in 2006, she was part of the Are Angels OK? Project, in which ten New Zealand writers and scientists collaborated in pairs as a way to mark the International Year of Physics. [9] In 2012, she was one of three New Zealand and three German poets in another collaborative writing project, the Transit of Venus Poetry Exchange. [2] [10] The resulting work formed part of New Zealand's Guest of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012, and Transit of Venus / Venustransit was published by Victoria University Press in 2016. [11] [9] [12]

Price taught the undergraduate Poetry workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington from 2004 to 2009, [9] and also managed its public events programmes and edited the online journal Turbine. [4] Since 2009, she has been convenor of the Poetry and Creative Nonfiction stream of the MA course at the IIML

Awards and prizes

Husk won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry at the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. [13]

Brief Lives was shortlisted in the biography category for the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards [13] and also won the 2007 PANZ Book Design Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book.

Beside Herself was longlisted for the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. [14]

Price's essay "The Lobster's Tail" was longlisted for the Notting Hill Essay Prize in 2015. [9]

She was Auckland University Writer in Residence at the Michael King Writers Centre in 2008, [4] [9] and the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton in 2011. [15]

In 2015 she was awarded a residency at the Château Lavigny, Switzerland. [9]

Bibliography 

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  4. 1 2 3 4 "Chris Price: 2008". Michael King Writers Centre. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  5. ↑ Price, Chris (March 2004). "Fled is that music". Best New Zealand Poems 2003. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  6. ↑ Price, Chris (March 2007). "From Are Angels OK? An Essay". Best New Zealand Poems 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  7. ↑ Price, Chris (October 2007). "Harriet and the Matches". Snorkel. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  8. ↑ Price, Chris (2006). "Four photographs of a piano: 1". Trout. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Chris Price". Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka: International Institute of Modern Letters. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  10. ↑ "Chris Price – Parallax". RNZ. 20 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  11. ↑ Green, Paula (18 February 2016). "Poetry and the Transit of Venus: a NZ – German collaboration". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "Transit of Venus". VUP. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  13. 1 2 "Montana New Zealand Book Awards". Christchurch City Council Libraries Nga Kete Wananga-o-Otautahi. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  14. ↑ "2017 Awards Longlist". NZ Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  15. ↑ "Chris Price wins New Zealand Post Mansfield Literary Prize". Creative NZ. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  16. ↑ Allen, Guy (18 April 2002). "Chris Price: Husk". NZ herald. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  17. ↑ Metzler, Matthias (15 March 2016). "Book Review: Beside Herself, by Chris Price". Booksellers NZ. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  18. ↑ Green, Paula (27 April 2016). "Reviews: Fits & Starts, Beside Herself". Stuff. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
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