Siobhan Harvey

'''Siobhan Harvey (born 1973) is a New Zealand poet, editor, and teacher.

Life
Harvey was born in the United Kingdom, and completed her education at the University of Manchester. She emigrated to New Zealand in 2001.

She has worked as a creative writing teacher in Manchester, and at the University of Auckland. She is the poetry editor of Takahe magazine and a consulting editor of the International Literary Quarterly. Since 2009 she has been the National Coordinator of New Zealand's National Poetry Day. Harvey, Siobhan, New Zealand Book Council. Web, Jan. 23, 2014.

Her writing has appeared in Landfall, International Literary Quarterly, NZ Listener, The Press, and Meanjin, and broadcast on Radio New Zealand. Anthologies that have included her work include Swings and Roundabouts: Poems about parenting (Godwit, 2008), and A Good Handful: Poems about sex (Auckland University Press, 2008). She has edited two anthologies, Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand poems about animals (Random House, 2009) and Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand writers in discussion (Cape Catley Ltd, 2010). Her first poetry collection, Lost Relatives, appeared in 2011.

Recognition
Harvey was twice runner-up, in 2008 and 2009, for the Bernard Gadd Memorial Poetry Prize. She has also been runner-up She was also runner-up in the Kathleen Grattan Award for a Sequence of Poems and the Landfall Essay competition, both in 2011. She won the Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award for 2013.