Ingrid Horrocks
{{Short description|New Zealand writer and academic}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
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| name = Ingrid Horrocks
| image = Ingrid Horrocks • Jane Ussher • Rangahau 2018 (cropped).tif
| birth_date = 1975
| birth_place = 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{{Cite web|url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/horrocks-ingrid/|title=Horrocks, Ingrid|date=March 2015|website=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura|access-date=9 December 2019}} and grew up on farms north of Auckland and in the Wairarapa.{{Cite web|url=http://turbinekapohau.org.nz/archive-issues/2003-contents/poetry-ingrid-horrocks/|title=Ingrid Horrocks: About the Author|date=2003|website=Turbine {{!}} Kapohau|access-date=9 December 2019}}
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).{{Cite web|url=https://www.york.ac.uk/english/news-events/events/2018/ingridhorrocks/|title=Reading and in Conversation: Bridging the Creative/Critical Divide|date=2018|website=University of York|access-date=9 December 2019}}
She then studied for a doctorate in English Literature at Princeton University and received an MA in 2003 and a PhD in 2006.{{Cite web|url=https://www.pantograph-punch.com/post/in_the_meantime|title=In the Meantime: Shipwrecks of the Self|last=Horrocks|first=Ingrid|date=28 November 2016|website=The Pantograph Punch|access-date=9 December 2019}}
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,{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/name-202204.html|title=Ingrid Horrocks (Person)|website=New Zealand Electronic Text Collection|access-date=9 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/turbine/Turbi03/poetry/N108FE.html|title=Hunger|last=Horrocks|first=Ingrid|website=Turbine 03|access-date=9 December 2019}} and in anthologies such as Mutes and Earthquakes (Victoria University Press, 1997) and New Zealand Writing: The NeXt Wave (University of Otago Press, 1998). 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."{{Cite web|url=http://pukeahuanthology.org/|title=Pukeahu: an exploratory anthology|website=Pukeahu: an exploratory anthology|access-date=9 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://mch.govt.nz/online-anthology-explores-pukeahumt-cook|title=Online anthology explores Pukeahu/Mt Cook|date=11 August 2015|website=Manatu Taonga: Ministry for Culture and Heritage|access-date=9 December 2019}}
Horrocks was Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at Massey University in Wellington, finishing in 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=988930|title=Associate Professor Ingrid Horrocks|website=Massey University|access-date=9 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/news/2023/11/ingrid-horrocks-named-as-2024-international-institute-of-modern-letters-writer-in-residence |title=Ingrid Horrocks named as 2024 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence | News | Victoria University of Wellington |date=3 November 2023 }}
She lives in Wellington with her partner and twin daughters.
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.{{Cite web|url=https://vup.victoria.ac.nz/brands/Ingrid-Horrocks.html|title=Ingrid Horrocks|website=Victoria University Press|access-date=9 December 2019}}
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.{{Cite journal|date=October 2008|title=2008 Fast Start grants|url=https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms//Massey%20News/Massey%20Research/pdf/Research-2008.pdf|journal=Massey Research|pages=11|issn=1177-2247}}
In 2016, she received the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching Award from Massey University for her innovative creative non-fiction courses.{{Cite web|url=https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/learning/programme-course/programme.cfm?prog_id=93118&major_code=PCRWR|title=Lecturer profiles: Ingrid Horrocks|website=Massey University|access-date=9 December 2019}}
Her travel essay, ‘Gone Swimming’ was shortlisted for the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition and she was highly commended in the same competition in 2019.{{Cite web|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/landfall/awards/otago065482.html|title=Landfall Essay Competition|website=University Of Otago: Otago University Press|access-date=9 December 2019}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bookdesignawards.co.nz/extraordinary-anywhere-upstart-press-award-for-best-non-illustrated-book-2017-finalist/|title=Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2017: Finalist|website=PANZ Book Design Awards|date=5 June 2017 |access-date=9 December 2019}}
Bibliography
=Non-fiction=
- Travelling with Augusta: Preston, Gorizia, Venice, Masterton: 1835 and 1999 (Victoria University Press, 2003){{Cite web|url=https://www.noted.co.nz/archive/archive-listener-nz-2003/old-dears-and-rampantly-gay-missionaries-1835-36|title=Old dears and rampantly gay missionaries, 1835-36|last=Balham|first=Diana|date=22 August 2003|website=New Zealand Listener|access-date=9 December 2019}}
- 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){{Cite web|url=https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201809425/ingrid-horrocks-and-harry-ricketts-our-place|title=Ingrid Horrocks and Harry Ricketts - Our Place|date=24 July 2016|website=RNZ |access-date=9 December 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.takahe.org.nz/t88/reviews/ingrid-horrocks-and-cherie-lacey-extraordinary-anywhere-essays-on-place/|title=Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie Lacey – Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place|last=Fusco|first=Cassandra|date=December 2016|website=takahē Magazine|access-date=9 December 2019}}
=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
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External links
- Profile of [https://www.read-nz.org/writer/horrocks-ingrid/ Ingrid Horrocks] on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
- Profile of [https://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/expertise/profile.cfm?stref=988930 Associate Professor Ingrid Horrocks], School of English and Media Studies, Massey University
- Author website for [http://ingridhorrocks.com Ingrid Horrocks]
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Category:Alumni of the University of York
Category:New Zealand women writers
Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni
Category:Educators from Wellington City