Ingrid Horrocks

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Ingrid Horrocks
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Born1975 (age 50–51)
Hamilton
OccupationWriter
NationalityNew Zealand

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

Biography

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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

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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 

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Non-fiction

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  • Travelling with Augusta: Preston, Gorizia, Venice, Masterton: 1835 and 1999 (Victoria University Press, 2003)[16]
  • Where We Swim (Victoria University Press and Queensland University Press, 2021).

Fiction

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  • All Her Lives (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2025)

Poetry

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  • Natsukashii (Pemmican Press, 1998)
  • Mapping the Distance (Victoria University Press, 2010)

As editor

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  • Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand, co-edited with Cherie Lacey (Victoria University Press, 2016)[17][18]

Monographs and scholarly editions

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  • Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark by Mary Wollstonecraft (1796) (Broadview Press, 2013)
  • Charlotte Smith: Major Poetic Works, co-edited with Claire Knowles (Broadview Press, 2017)
  • Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, 1784-1814 (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

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