Stephanie de Montalk

Stephanie de Montalk (born 1945) is a New Zealand poet.

Life
De Montalk was born in Wellington. She was educated at theWellington Hospital School of Nursing and Victoria University of Wellington, where she was joint winner of the Original Composition prize in 1997. She has worked as a registered nurse, a University hall warden, a video examiner for the Video Recordings Authority, and for ten years as a documentary film maker.

She did began writing creatively in 1996. Her work has since appeared in journals including Sport, Landfall, Southerly, London Magazine, NZ Books, Booknotes, NZ Listener, Fulcrum and Poetry NZ (in which she was a featured in issue XX), online publications Turbine and Best New Zealand Poems, and numerous anthologies of poetry and prose. Her poetry has been broadcast on National Radio and screened on TV1's Poet's Corner.

Recognition
Animals Indoors, her debut collection, won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Best First Book of Poetry award at the 2001 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.