Anna Taylor (writer)

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Anna Taylor
BornAnna Horsley
1982 (age 41–42)
New Zealand

Anna Taylor (born 1982) is an author from New Zealand.

Background[edit]

Taylor was born in 1982. In 2006 she received her MA in creative writing at the Victoria University of Wellington. Taylor lives in Wellington, New Zealand.[1]

Career[edit]

Until 2009, Taylor published under the name Anna Horsley. Taylor is her mother's surname.[2]

Taylor's first collection of short stories, Relief, was published in 2009 by Victoria University Press.[3]

Fiction by Taylor been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals including The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories,[4] Sport,[5] Turbine,[6] and Hue&Cry.[7]

Taylor is currently a creative writing tutor at Whitireia New Zealand.[8]

Awards[edit]

Relief won the 2010 NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award at the New Zealand Post Book Awards.[9]

While at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Victoria University of Wellington, Taylor won the 2006 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for the manuscript Going Under: Stories (which was later published as Relief).[10]

In 2009 she received the Todd New Writer's Bursary from Creative New Zealand.[11]

In 2012 she received the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with David Lyndon Brown.[12]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Anna Taylor". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Anna Taylor". New Zealand Book Council. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. ^ Taylor, Anna (2009). Relief. Victoria University Press. ISBN 9780864735874.
  4. ^ Morris, Paula, ed. (2009). The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories. Penguin New Zealand. ISBN 9780143006817.
  5. ^ "Sport: Anna Horsley". New Zealand Electronic Text Collection. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  6. ^ Horsley, Anna (2006). "The Dress". Turbine. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Anna Taylor". Hue & Cry. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  8. ^ "Creative Writing & Publishing Tutors". Whitireia. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Past Winners by Author". New Zealand Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Prize winners". International Institute of Modern Letters | Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  11. ^ "Creative New Zealand Grants" (PDF). Creative New Zealand. 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship | Stipend for Published NZ Writers". Grimshaw. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
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