Chris Price
Senior Lecturer,
International Institute of Modern Letters
Phone: 04 463 5815
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Street Address: Room 301, 16 Waiteata Road, Kelburn Campus
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Introduction
Chris is a past editor of Landfall, has worked in publishing, and was for many years coordinator of New Zealand's most successful literary event, the New Zealand International Arts Festival's Writers and Readers Week.
Chris holds an MA in Languages and Literature from Auckland University and an MA in Creative Writing from Victoria University. Her first book of poems, Husk, was published in 2002 and won the Montana Best First Book of Poetry award.
Her second book, Brief Lives (2006) inhabits a territory where fiction, biography, prose poetry and essay meet and overlap. It was shortlisted in the biography category of the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards. In 2008 Chris Price was Auckland University Writer in Residence at the Michael King Writers' Centre, and in 2009 she published another poetry collection, The Blind Singer. Chris's books are published by Auckland University Press.
In October 2010, Chris was awarded the 2011 New Zealand Post Mansfield Prize. As the fourth Menton Fellow since New Zealand Post became the Prize's principle sponsor, Chris will travel to Menton, France in 2011 to work at the Villa Isola Bella, where Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote in 1919 and 1920.
Bernadette Hall will co-convene the MA (Page) in 2011 while Chris is on academic leave.