Anna Taylor (writer)

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

Anna Taylor
BornAnna Horsley
1982 (age 38–39)
New Zealand

Background

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

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

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

While at the 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
  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 (editor) (2009). The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories. Penguin New Zealand. ISBN 9780143006817.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  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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