Anna Jackson


Anna Jackson is a New Zealand poet, fiction and non-fiction writer and an academic.

Biography

Jackson grew up in Auckland and now lives in Wellington. She has an MA from the University of Auckland and a DPhil from Oxford University. She is currently an associate professor in the School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington.
Her poems were first published in the collection AUP New Poets 1 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 Auckland University Press, was reviewed on Radio New Zealand's Nine to Noon programme on 3 April 2018.
Thicket by Anna Jackson was reviewed in The Listener magazine. Thre was a Review Short of Anna Jackson's I, Clodia, and Other Portraits in Cordite Poetry Review.
Additional reviews were made of Thicket,
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 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship in 2015, and in 2016 she was selected for the Residency Programme at the Michael King Writers’ Centre in 2017.

Publications

Her work includes the following:
;Poetry
;Editor