Ingrid Horrocks Explained

Ingrid Horrocks
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^[1] and grew up on farms north of Auckland and in the Wairarapa.^[2]

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).^[3]

She then studied for a doctorate in English Literature at Princeton University and received an MA in 2003 and a PhD in 2006.^[4]

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,^{[5] [6]} 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."^{[7] [8]}

Horrocks was Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at Massey University in Wellington, finishing in 2022.^{[9] [10]}

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.^[11]

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.^[12]

In 2016, she received the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching Award from Massey University for her innovative creative non-fiction courses.^[13]

Her travel essay, ‘Gone Swimming’ was shortlisted for the 2017 Landfall Essay Competition and she was highly commended in the same competition in 2019.^[14]

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.^[15]

Bibliography 

Non-fiction

• Travelling with Augusta: Preston, Gorizia, Venice, Masterton: 1835 and 1999 (Victoria University Press, 2003)^[16]
• 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)^{[17] [18]}

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)

External links

• Profile of Ingrid Horrocks on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
• Profile of Associate Professor Ingrid Horrocks, School of English and Media Studies, Massey University
• Author website for Ingrid Horrocks

Notes and References

1. Web site: Horrocks, Ingrid. March 2015. Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. 9 December 2019.
2. Web site: Ingrid Horrocks: About the Author. 2003. Turbine Kapohau. 9 December 2019.
3. Web site: Reading and in Conversation: Bridging the Creative/Critical Divide. 2018. University of York. 9 December 2019.
4. Web site: In the Meantime: Shipwrecks of the Self. Horrocks. Ingrid. 28 November 2016. The Pantograph Punch. 9 December 2019.
5. Web site: Ingrid Horrocks (Person). New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. 9 December 2019.
6. Web site: Hunger. Horrocks. Ingrid. Turbine 03. 9 December 2019.
7. Web site: Pukeahu: an exploratory anthology. Pukeahu: an exploratory anthology. 9 December 2019.
8. Web site: Online anthology explores Pukeahu/Mt Cook. 11 August 2015. Manatu Taonga: Ministry for Culture and Heritage. 9 December 2019.
9. Web site: Associate Professor Ingrid Horrocks. Massey University. 9 December 2019.
10. Web site: Ingrid Horrocks named as 2024 International Institute of Modern Letters Writer in Residence | News | Victoria University of Wellington . 3 November 2023 .
11. Web site: Ingrid Horrocks. Victoria University Press. 9 December 2019.
12. October 2008. 2008 Fast Start grants. Massey Research. 11. 1177-2247.
13. Web site: Lecturer profiles: Ingrid Horrocks. Massey University. 9 December 2019.
14. Web site: Landfall Essay Competition. University Of Otago: Otago University Press. 9 December 2019.
15. Web site: Upstart Press Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book 2017: Finalist. PANZ Book Design Awards. 5 June 2017 . 9 December 2019.
16. Web site: Old dears and rampantly gay missionaries, 1835-36. Balham. Diana. 22 August 2003. New Zealand Listener. 9 December 2019.
17. Web site: Ingrid Horrocks and Harry Ricketts - Our Place. 24 July 2016. RNZ. 9 December 2019.
18. Web site: Ingrid Horrocks and Cherie Lacey – Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place. Fusco. Cassandra. December 2016. takahē Magazine. 9 December 2019.