Anna Jackson (poet)

Anna Jackson (born 1967) is a New Zealand poet and academic.

Life
Jackson received an M.A. at the University of Auckland, and a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford.

She has lectured at the University of Otago, at the University of Auckland, and at Oxford, on film studies, Victorian literature, Renaissance drama, 20th-century literature, drama on stage and screen, modern poetry, academic writing skills and medicine and literature. She works in the Department of English at the University of Auckland. Anna Jackson, Seeing Voices, New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre.

She has authored and co-edited numerous works of literary criticism, guest-edited New Zealand magazines and contributing everything from essays on children’s literature and poetics, to short stories and book reviews for journals and anthologies in New Zealand and elsewhere. Her poetry was first appeared in book form in AUP New Poets 1 (Auckland University Press, 1999). She has since published severak collections of poetry and a book of poetic collaboration with Dunedin poet, Jenny Powell-Chalmers.

Recognition

 * 1999 - Louis Johnson New Writers Bursary
 * 2001 - Waikato University Writer in Residence
 * 2002 - Montana New Zealand Book Awards (poetry shortlist) for The Pastoral Kitchen
 * 2012 - New Zealand Post Book Awards (poetry finalist) for Thicket

''Except where noted, award information courtesy The Poetry Archive.

External quotes

 * Poems
 * Anna Jackson at the New Zealand Electronic Poetry Centre (1 poem, "Kitchen Drain")
 * Audio / video
 * Anna Jackson (b. 1967), The Poetry Archive. Web, Jan. 29, 2014.
 * About
 * Anna Jackson at the New Zealand Book Council.