Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic.
Biography
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]
Awards and honours
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].
Publications
Her work includes the following:[13]
- Poetry
- Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems (Auckland UP, 2018)
- I, Clodia (Auckland UP, 2014)
- Thicket (Auckland UP, 2011)
- The Gas Leak (Auckland UP, 2006)
- Catullus for Children (Auckland UP, 2003)
- The Pastoral Kitchen (Auckland UP, 2001)
- The Long Road to Teatime (Auckland UP, 2000)
- Editor
- Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand (co-edited with Angelina Sbroma & Helen Rickerby: Victoria UP, 2016)
- Verse Biography (special issue of the journal Biography: Hawai’i UP, 2016)
- Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction (co-edited with Jane Stafford: Victoria UP, 2009)
- The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders (co-edited with Karen Coats & Rod McGillis: Routledge, 2007)
Fiction
- The Bed-making Competition (2018)
References
External links
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