Ingrid Horrocks

Ingrid Horrocks
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.

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

• 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).

Poetry

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

As editor

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

Monographs and scholarly editions

• 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)

References

1. "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. "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. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
9. "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. 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. Retrieved 9 December 2019.

External links

• Profile of Ingrid Horrocks on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
• Profile of Associate Professor Ingrid Horrocks, School of English and Media Studies, Massey University
• Author website for Ingrid Horrocks