Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a

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poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic.

Biography

Jackson grew up in

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and now lives in

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. She has an MA from the

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and a DPhil from

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. She is currently an associate professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at

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. Her poems were first published in the collection ''AUP New Poets 1'' (AUP, 1999) and she has since published a number of collections of poetry, as well as writing and co-editing works of literary criticism, essays, short stories and book reviews for publications in New Zealand and overseas. Much of her poetry explores the ideas of family and childhood. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies, and she has published several collections of poetry. ''The Gas Leak'' was reviewed in the ''Journal of New Zealand Literature''. ''Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems'', published by

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, was reviewed on

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's Nine to Noon programme on 3 April 2018. ''Thicket'' by Anna Jackson was reviewed in the ''Listener'' magazine, and in ''takahē magazine''. ''I, Clodia, and Other Portraits'' was reviewed by ''Cordite Poetry Review'', and ''Landfall''.

Awards and honours

She has received a number of awards for her work, including a 1999 Louis Johnson New writers’ Bursary, the 2001 Waikato University Writer in Residence, the

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in 2015, and in 2016 she was selected for the Residency Programme at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in 2017. In 2018 she was a winner of

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VI with ''The Bed-making Competition'.''

Publications

Her work includes the following: ;Poetry * ''Pasture and Flock: New and Selected Poems'' (Auckland UP, 2018) * ''I, Clodia'' (Auckland UP, 2014) * ''Thicket'' (Auckland UP, 2011) * ''The Gas Leak'' (Auckland UP, 2006) * ''Catullus for Children'' (Auckland UP, 2003) * ''The Pastoral Kitchen'' (Auckland UP, 2001) * ''The Long Road to Teatime'' (Auckland UP, 2000) ;Editor * ''Truth and Beauty: Verse Biography in Canada, Australia and New Zealand'' (co-edited with Angelina Sbroma &

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: Victoria UP, 2016) * ''Verse Biography'' (special issue of the journal ''Biography'': Hawai’i UP, 2016) * ''Floating Worlds: Essays on Contemporary New Zealand Fiction'' (co-edited with Jane Stafford: Victoria UP, 2009) * ''The Gothic in Children’s Literature: Haunting the Borders'' (co-edited with Karen Coats & Rod McGillis: Routledge, 2007)

Fiction

* ''The Bed-making Competition'' (2018)

References

External links

* https://www.anzliterature.com/member/anna-jackson/ * http://www.annajackson.nz * http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/en/browse-books/authors-a-z/anna-jackson.html * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jackson, Anna 1967 births Living people People from Wellington City New Zealand poets People from Auckland New Zealand women poets