Ingrid Horrocks
Ingrid Horrocks’s fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, won the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, New Zealand’s premier prize for writing, at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Her other books include two collections of poetry, a history of women wanderers published by Cambridge University Press, and a memoir, Where We Swim, about mid-life, parenting, love and the climate crisis. She taught creative writing at Massey University for fifteen years, where she was made Professor, before leaving to have more time for her own writing. She now runs an MA in Creative Writing at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Te Herenga Waka University of Wellington, and teaches online for the Australian-based Faber Academy. Her essays have appeared in places from The Spinoff and Landfall, to The Guardian and Lithub.
