Chris Price (poet)

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Chris Price
Born1962
Reading
OccupationWriter
NationalityNew Zealand

Chris Price (born 1962) is a poet, editor and creative writing teacher. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Biography[edit]

Price was born in 1962 in Reading, Berkshire, and moved with her family from England to Auckland in 1966.[1][2] She came from a family of great readers.[3] At secondary school, her entry in a school poetry award judged by Lauris Edmond was highly commended, and at university she took a writing workshop taught by C.K. Stead.[3]

She completed an MA (Hons) in languages and literature from the University of Auckland in 1986, and later an MA in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington.[4]

She was an editor for Reed Publishing from 1989 until 1993,[1] editor of Landfall from 1993 to 2000 and coordinator of Writers and Readers Week for the New Zealand International Arts Festival in Wellington from 1992 to 2004.[4]  

Her poems have been published in anthologies[5][6][7][8] and in 2006, she was part of the Are Angels OK? Project, in which ten New Zealand writers and scientists collaborated in pairs as a way to mark the International Year of Physics.[9] In 2012, she was one of three New Zealand and three German poets in another collaborative writing project, the Transit of Venus Poetry Exchange.[2][10] The resulting work formed part of New Zealand's Guest of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012, and Transit of Venus / Venustransit was published by Victoria University Press in 2016.[11][9][12]

Price taught the undergraduate Poetry workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington from 2004 to 2009,[9] and also managed its public events programmes and edited the online journal Turbine.[4] Since 2009, she has been convenor of the Poetry and Creative Nonfiction stream of the MA course at the IIML

Awards and prizes[edit]

Husk won the New Zealand Society of Authors Jessie Mackay Best First Book Award for Poetry at the 2002 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[13]

Brief Lives was shortlisted in the biography category for the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards[13] and also won the 2007 PANZ Book Design Award for Best Non-Illustrated Book.

Beside Herself was longlisted for the 2017 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.[14]

Price's essay "The Lobster's Tail" was longlisted for the Notting Hill Essay Prize in 2015.[9]

She was Auckland University Writer in Residence at the Michael King Writers' Centre in 2008,[4][9] and the Katherine Mansfield Fellow in Menton in 2011.[15]

In 2015 she was awarded a residency at the Château Lavigny, Switzerland.[9]

Bibliography [edit]

  • Husk (Auckland University Press, 2002)[16]
  • Brief Lives (Auckland University Press, 2006)
  • The Blind Singer (2009)
  • Beside Herself, drawings by Leo Bensemann (Auckland University Press, 2016)[17][18]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Price, Chris". Read NZ Te Pou Muramura. November 2016. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  2. ^ a b Handal, Nathalie (13 April 2016). "The City and the Writer: In Wellington, NZ with Chris Price". Words without Borders. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  3. ^ a b Green, Paula (27 April 2016). "Poetry Shelf interviews Chris Price". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d "Chris Price: 2008". Michael King Writers Centre. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  5. ^ Price, Chris (March 2004). "Fled is that music". Best New Zealand Poems 2003. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  6. ^ Price, Chris (March 2007). "From Are Angels OK? An Essay". Best New Zealand Poems 2006. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  7. ^ Price, Chris (October 2007). "Harriet and the Matches". Snorkel. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  8. ^ Price, Chris (2006). "Four photographs of a piano: 1". Trout. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Chris Price". Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka: International Institute of Modern Letters. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  10. ^ "Chris Price – Parallax". RNZ. 20 December 2012. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  11. ^ Green, Paula (18 February 2016). "Poetry and the Transit of Venus: a NZ – German collaboration". NZ Poetry Shelf. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  12. ^ "Transit of Venus". VUP. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  13. ^ a b "Montana New Zealand Book Awards". Christchurch City Council Libraries Nga Kete Wananga-o-Otautahi. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  14. ^ "2017 Awards Longlist". NZ Book Awards Trust. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  15. ^ "Chris Price wins New Zealand Post Mansfield Literary Prize". Creative NZ. 11 October 2010. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  16. ^ Allen, Guy (18 April 2002). "Chris Price: Husk". NZ herald. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  17. ^ Metzler, Matthias (15 March 2016). "Book Review: Beside Herself, by Chris Price". Booksellers NZ. Retrieved 28 December 2019.
  18. ^ Green, Paula (27 April 2016). "Reviews: Fits & Starts, Beside Herself". Stuff. Retrieved 28 December 2019.

External links[edit]

  • Profile of Chris Price on Read NZ Te Pou Muramura website.
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