Ingrid Horrocks

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Ingrid Horrocks
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Born1975
Hamilton
OccupationWriter
NationalityNew Zealand

Ingrid Horrocks is a creative writing teacher, poet, travel writer, editor and essayist. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Biography

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]

Awards and honours

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]

Bibliography 

Non-fiction

Poetry

As editor

Monographs and scholarly editions

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Horrocks, Ingrid". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. March 2015. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  2. "Ingrid Horrocks: About the Author". Turbine | Kapohau. 2003. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Reading and in Conversation: Bridging the Creative/Critical Divide". University of York. 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  4. Horrocks, Ingrid (28 November 2016). "In the Meantime: Shipwrecks of the Self". The Pantograph Punch. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  5. "Ingrid Horrocks (Person)". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  6. Horrocks, Ingrid. "Hunger". Turbine 03. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  7. "Pukeahu: an exploratory anthology". Pukeahu: an exploratory anthology. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  8. "Online anthology explores Pukeahu/Mt Cook". Manatu Taonga: Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 11 August 2015. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  9. 1 2 3 "Associate Professor Ingrid Horrocks". Massey University. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  10. "Ingrid Horrocks named as 2024 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence | News | Victoria University of Wellington". 3 November 2023.
  11. "Ingrid Horrocks". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  12. "2008 Fast Start grants" (PDF). Massey Research: 11. October 2008. ISSN   1177-2247.
  13. "Lecturer profiles: Ingrid Horrocks". Massey University. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  14. "Landfall Essay Competition". University Of Otago: Otago University Press. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  15. "Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2017: Finalist". PANZ Book Design Awards. 5 June 2017. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  16. Balham, Diana (22 August 2003). "Old dears and rampantly gay missionaries, 1835-36". New Zealand Listener. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  17. "Ingrid Horrocks and Harry Ricketts - Our Place". RNZ . 24 July 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
  18. Fusco, Cassandra (December 2016). "Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie Lacey – Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place". takahē Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2019.