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Stephanie de Montalk
Stephanie de Montalk (born 1945) is a poet and biographer from New Zealand. BackgroundBorn in 1945, in New Zealand, de Montalk grew up in the Far North and Wellington.[1] She trained at Wellington Hospital School of Nursing and received and MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. She has worked as a nurse, documentary filmmaker, and from 1996–2002 member of the New Zealand Film and Literature Board of Review.[2][3][4] WorksPublished works by de Montalk include:
de Montalk has also published in various literary journals including Landfall, Southerly, London Magazine, and New Zealand Listener.[4] Her poems have also been published in the 2005 the Best New Zealand Poems series.[5] In 2001, she published a biography of her second-cousin Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk entitled, Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk.[6][4] Following an accident in 2003, de Montalk's writing has often explored concepts of isolation and exile.[2] In her 2014 creative nonfiction work, How Does It Hurt? she explores ideas around chronic pain, both her own and the experiences of other writers.[7][8] In 2007, an engraving of her poem, Violinist at the Edge of an Ice Field was erected at the Franz Josef Glacier visitor centre.[4] AwardsIn 1997, while studying at the Victoria University of Wellington de Montalk was a joint winner of the Original Composition prize.[4][2] Also in 1997, her short story 'The Waiting' was a joint winner of the Novice Writers' Award in the Bank of New Zealand Katherine Mansfield Short Story Awards.[4][3] In 2001 her collection Animals Indoors won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book for Poetry at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[9] In 2006 she was the Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence.[10] How Does It Hurt? won the Nigel Cox Award from Unity Books in 2015.[11] References
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