Chris Price | |
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| Born | 1962 Reading |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
Chris Price (born 1962) is a poet, editor and creative writing teacher. She lives inWellington, New Zealand.
Price was born in 1962 inReading, Berkshire, and moved with her family from England toAuckland in 1966.[1][2] She came from a family of great readers.[3] At secondary school, her entry in a school poetry award judged byLauris Edmond was highly commended, and at university she took a writing workshop taught byC.K. Stead.[3]
She completed an MA (Hons) in languages and literature from theUniversity of Auckland in 1986, and later an MA in creative writing fromVictoria University of Wellington.[4]
She was an editor forReed Publishing from 1989 until 1993,[1] editor ofLandfall from 1993 to 2000 and coordinator of Writers and Readers Week for theNew Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington from 1992 to 2004.[4]
Her poems have been published in anthologies[5][6][7][8] and in 2006, she was part of theAre Angels OK? Project, in which ten New Zealand writers and scientists collaborated in pairs as a way to mark the International Year of Physics.[9] In 2012, she was one of three New Zealand and three German poets in another collaborative writing project, the Transit of Venus Poetry Exchange.[2][10] The resulting work formed part of New Zealand's Guest of Honour programme at theFrankfurt Book Fair in 2012, andTransit of Venus / Venustransit was published by Victoria University Press in 2016.[11][9][12]
Price taught the undergraduate Poetry workshop at theInternational Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington from 2004 to 2009,[9] and also managed its public events programmes and edited the online journalTurbine.[4] Since 2009, she has been convenor of the Poetry and Creative Nonfiction stream of the MA course at the IIML
Husk won theNew Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry at the 2002Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[13]
Brief Lives was shortlisted in the biography category for the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards[13] and also won the 2007 PANZ Book Design Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book.
Beside Herself was longlisted for the 2017Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[14]
Price's essay "The Lobster's Tail" was longlisted for the Notting Hill Essay Prize in 2015.[9]
She was Auckland University Writer in Residence at theMichael King Writers Centre in 2008,[4][9] and theKatherine Mansfield Fellow inMenton in 2011.[15]
In 2015 she was awarded a residency at the Château Lavigny,Switzerland.[9]
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