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Siobhan Harvey

Siobhan Harvey is a New Zealand author, editor and creative writing lecturer. She writes poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction.

Early Life

Harvey was born in Cannock, Staffordshire UK in 1973. She graduated from the University of London, Sheffield Hallam University (MA in Creative Writing, 2001) and Auckland University of Technology (PhD in Creative Writing, 2021).

Career

Harvey is the author of eight books. Her first New Zealand collection was Lost Relatives (Steele Roberts, 2011). Her second collection, Cloudboy (Otago University Press, 2014) won New Zealand richest prize for poetry, 2013 Kathleen Grattan Award ref>. In 2021, a collection of poetry and creative nonfiction, Ghosts (Otago University Press) was launched at the Auckland Writers Festival. Poems in the book had been awarded 2019 Kathleen Grattan Award for a Sequence of Poems, 2020 Robert Burns Poetry Competition and 2020 New Zealand Society of Authors Peter and Diane Beatson Fellowship.

Harvey’s fiction has been published in literary journals and anthologies, such as Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), Griffith Review (Australia) and Best of Auckland (Writers Café, 2020). Her fiction won a 2016 Write Well Award (Silver Pen, US).

Her creative nonfiction has been published in Griffith Review (Australia), Landfall and the anthology, Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility (Cyren Press, 2019). She has shortlisted for the Landfall Essay Competition on multiple occasions, including being placed runner up (2011) and third (2020).

Harvey’s poetry has been twice selected for Best New Zealand Poems series: 2012 (guest editor, Ian Wedde) and 2020 (guest editor, David Eggleton) and has been placed runner-up in 2015 and 2014 New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competitions, 2012 Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize (Australia) and 2012 Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition.

Harvey served as the President of the New Zealand Society of Authors (2017-2019), New Zealand’s National Poetry Day Coordinator (2008 – 2013) and Poetry Editor, takahē literary magazine (2007 – 2014).

In 2021, she was awarded the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry.

Works

Poetry and Nonfiction

2021 Ghosts

Poetry

2014 Cloudboy 2011 Lost Relatives

Edited Works

2014 Essential New Zealand Poems 2010 Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers in Discussion 2009 Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals