Elizabeth Palmer Caffin is a writer, editor and publisher from New Zealand. Caffin began her publishing career with a position at

Reed Publishing Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd (formerly A. H. Reed Ltd and A. H. and A. W. Reed Ltd) was one of the leading publishers in New Zealand. It was founded by Alfred Hamish Reed and his wife Isabel in 1907. Reed's nephew Alexander Wyclif Reed joined the fi ...

in 1976. She was later the director of

Auckland University Press Auckland University Press is a New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966 and formally recognised as Auckland University Press in 1972, it is an independent publisher based within The ...

for more than ten years. She is a

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of the

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, and has served on a number of arts bodies including the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council, the Press Council, the Literary Fund Advisory Council and Book Publishers Association of New Zealand.

Publications

* ''Introducing Katherine Mansfield'' (1982), Longman Paul * ''The Deepening Stream: A History of the New Zealand Literary Fund'' (with Andrew Mason, 2016), Victoria University Press * ''Allen Curnow: Collected Poems'' (with Terry Sturm, 2017), Auckland University Press

Recognition

In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Caffin was appointed a

Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit The New Zealand Order of Merit is an order of merit in the New Zealand royal honours system. It was established by royal warrant on 30 May 1996 by Elizabeth II, Queen of New Zealand, "for those persons who in any field of endeavour, have ren ...

, for services to literature. In 2009, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the

University of Auckland , mottoeng = By natural ability and hard work , established = 1883; years ago , endowment = NZD $293 million (31 December 2021) , budget = NZD $1.281 billion (31 December 2021) , chancellor = Cecilia Tarrant , vice_chancellor = Dawn F ...

References

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