Ingrid Horrocks | |
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| Born | 1975 Hamilton |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
Ingrid Horrocks is a creative writing teacher, poet, travel writer, editor and essayist. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Ingrid Horrocks | |
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| Born | 1975 Hamilton |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
Ingrid Horrocks is a creative writing teacher, poet, travel writer, editor and essayist. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
Ingrid Horrocks was born in Hamilton in 1975 [1] and grew up on farms north of Auckland and in the Wairarapa. [2]
She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Victoria University of Wellington (1998) and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study women’s travel writing at the University of York, where she graduated with Master of Arts (Distinction) in Eighteenth Century Studies (2001). [1] [3]
She then studied for a doctorate in English Literature at Princeton University and received an MA in 2003 and a PhD in 2006. [1] [4]
Her work includes scholarly editions of works by Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith, articles in journals and online, conference papers and book chapters, including Chapter One (‘A World of Waters: Imagining, Voyaging, Entanglement’) in A History of New Zealand Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her poetry and short fiction has appeared in literary magazines such as Landfall, Turbine, J.A.A.M. and Sport, [5] [6] and in anthologies such as Mutes and Earthquakes (Victoria University Press, 1997) and New Zealand Writing: The NeXt Wave (University of Otago Press, 1998). [1] With Lynn Davidson, she co-edited Pukeahu: an exploratory anthology, an online anthology of "waiata, poems, essays, and fiction about Pukeahu / Mt Cook, a small hill in Wellington, Aotearoa-New Zealand that rises between two streams." [7] [8]
Horrocks was Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at Massey University in Wellington, finishing in 2022. [9] [10]
She lives in Wellington with her partner and twin daughters. [9]
Horrocks won the class prize for creative writing in 1996, the Macmillan Brown Prize in 1996 and a William Georgetti Scholarship in 1999. [11]
She received a Fast-Start Grant from the Marsden Fund in 2008 for her study Reluctant wanderers: women re-imagine the margins, 1775-1800, exploring the figure of the female wanderer in late 18th-century British literary culture. [12]
In 2016, she received the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching Award from Massey University for her innovative creative non-fiction courses. [13]
Her travel essay, ‘Gone Swimming’ was shortlisted for the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition [9] [3] and she was highly commended in the same competition in 2019. [14]
Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand was shortlisted for the Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book in the 2017 PANZ Book Awards. [15]
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