Ingrid Horrocks

Ingrid Horrocks’s fiction debut, All Her Lives: Nine Stories, won New Zealand’s premier literary award, the 2026 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. The judges described the book about women’s lives ranging across two centuries as ‘outrageously good.’ It was released in Australia with UQP in April 2026.

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Ingrid has a PhD from Princeton and her other books include a history of women wanderers and two collections of poetry. Her eco-memoir, Where We Swim, was described by the Australian Book Review as a ‘luminous’ ‘work of wondrous depth.’ Ingrid’s writing has appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, The Spinoff, Landfall, and the Guardian. In 2024 she was the Kaituhi Tarāwhare Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka University and in 2025 she was awarded an International Residency at Varuna National Writers House. She teaches at the IIML in Wellington, and for the Faber Writing Academy.

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