Anna Jackson

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/about/staff/anna-jackson|title=Anna Jackson - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington|website=www.victoria.ac.nz|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/anna-jackson|title=Anna Jackson - poetryarchive.org|website=www.poetryarchive.org|language=en|access-date=2018-10-27}} Much of her poetry explores the ideas of family and childhood.{{Cite news|url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/speech/43098/anna-jackson-2007|title=Anna Jackson, 2007|last=Kemp|first=Jan|access-date=2018-10-27|last2=Taonga|first2=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu|language=en}} Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published several collections of poetry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/seftms/about/staff/anna-jackson/publications|title=Publications - School of English, Film, Theatre, and Media Studies - Victoria University of Wellington|website=www.victoria.ac.nz|language=en|access-date=2018-10-13}} The Gas Leak was reviewed in the Journal of New Zealand Literature.{{Cite journal|last=Scudder|first=Erin|date=2017|title=Dear Thief: Anna Jackson's The Gas Leak|journal=Journal of New Zealand Literature|issue=35:2|pages=131–150|jstor=90018328}}

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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/audio/2018638800/nz-books-pukapuka-aotearoa-review-pasture-and-flock|title=NZ Books - Pukapuka Aotearoa review: Pasture and Flock|date=2018-04-03|work=Radio New Zealand |access-date=2018-10-13|language=en-nz}}

Thicket by Anna Jackson was reviewed in the Listener magazine,{{Cite web|url=https://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2011/thicket-by-anna-jackson-review/|title=Thicket by Anna Jackson review - The Listener|last=Noted|website=Noted|language=en|access-date=2018-10-27|archive-date=27 October 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181027101322/https://www.noted.co.nz/archive/listener-nz-2011/thicket-by-anna-jackson-review/|url-status=dead}} and in takahē magazine.{{Cite web|url=http://www.takahe.org.nz/oldsite/reviews/t75/Takahe75Thicket.pdf|title=Review of Thicket|access-date=2018-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215011849/http://www.takahe.org.nz/oldsite/reviews/t75/Takahe75Thicket.pdf|archive-date=2019-02-15|url-status=dead}} I, Clodia, and Other Portraits was reviewed by Cordite Poetry Review,{{Cite news|url=http://cordite.org.au/reviews/brown-jackson/|title=Review Short: Anna Jackson's I, Clodia, and Other Portraits|date=2015-04-12|work=Cordite Poetry Review|access-date=2018-10-27|language=en-US}} and Landfall.{{Cite news|url=https://landfallreview.com/a-net-stretched-taut-across-a-court/|title=A Net Stretched Taut Across a Court|date=2015-07-31|work=Landfall Review Online|access-date=2018-10-27|language=en-NZ}}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/jackson-anna|title=Anna Jackson |website=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura |access-date=13 May 2024}} In 2018 she was a winner of Viva la Novella VI with The Bed-making Competition{{Cite web|last=Mem: 9369632|title=Jackson, Jones win Viva la Novella {{!}} Books+Publishing|url=https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2018/08/31/114515/jackson-jones-win-viva-la-novella/|access-date=2021-07-08|language=en-AU}}.

Her work includes the following:{{Cite news|url=https://www.anzliterature.com/member/anna-jackson/|title=Anna Jackson – Academy of New Zealand Literature|work=Academy of New Zealand Literature|access-date=2018-10-27|language=en-US}}

;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)

• The Bed-making Competition (2018)

{{Reflist}}

• https://www.anzliterature.com/member/anna-jackson/
• http://www.annajackson.nz
• http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/en/browse-books/authors-a-z/anna-jackson.html
• {{Cite web|url=http://lumiere.net.nz/index.php/an-interview-with-anna-jackson-i-clodia-and-other-portraits/|title=Interview with Anna Jackson in Lumiere|website=Lumiere}}
• {{Cite news|url=https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/books/powerful-collections-nz-poets|title=Powerful collections from NZ Poets - Otago Daily Times|work=Otago Daily Times }}

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Category:1967 births

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