| Sheridan Keith | |
| Birth Place: | Wellington, New Zealand |
| Nationality: | New Zealander |
| Notable Works: | Zoology (1995) |
Sheridan Keith (born 1942) is a New Zealand author, artist, broadcaster and curator.
Keith was born in Wellington in 1942.[1] [2] She is the daughter of ceramic artist and painter June Black.[3] She studied zoology and English literature at Victoria University of Wellington.[4] During the 1960s she spent a decade living in London, and returned to New Zealand in 1974, where she worked as a journalist for several years before beginning to write fiction.[1]
Her work has included broadcasting, journalism and teaching creative writing, and her writing has been published in The London Magazine, Landfall, the New Zealand Listener and other magazines.[4] Her first collection of short stories, Shallow are the Smiles at the Supermarket (1991) was shortlisted in the Best First Book category of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.[4] Her first novel, Zoology (1995), grew out of a short story included in her second collection of short stories, Animal Passions (1992).[1] It won the Fiction Award at the 1996 Montana Book Awards.[4] [5] Academic Terry Sturm said Keith's short stories "focus on the practices and aspirations of women in a demanding world".[6]
Since around 1995, Keith has owned a gallery called Blikfang Art and Antiques in Northcote, a suburb of Auckland.[4] [3] [7]