Anna Taylor (born 1982) is an author from New Zealand.

Background

Taylor was born in 1982. In 2006 she received her MA in creative writing at the

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. Taylor lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Career

Until 2009, Taylor published under the name Anna Horsley. Taylor is her mother's surname. Taylor's first collection of short stories, ''Relief'', was published in 2009 by

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. Fiction by Taylor been published in a number of anthologies and literary journals including ''The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories'', ''Sport'', ''Turbine'', and ''Hue&Cry''. Taylor is currently a creative writing tutor at

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Awards

''Relief'' won the 2010 NZSA Hubert Church Best First Book Award at the

New Zealand Post Book Awards The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder Wa ...

. While at the

International Institute of Modern Letters The International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML; ) is a centre of creative writing based within Victoria University of Wellington. Founded in 2001, the IIML offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses (including a PhD in creative writing) ...

at Victoria University of Wellington, Taylor won the 2006 Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing for the manuscript ''Going Under: Storie''s (which was later published as ''Relief''). In 2009 she received the Todd New Writer's Bursary from

Creative New Zealand The Arts Council of New Zealand Toi Aotearoa (Creative New Zealand) is the national arts development agency of the New Zealand government established in 1963. It invests in artists and arts organisations, offering capability building programmes a ...

. In 2012 she received the Grimshaw Sargeson Fellowship with David Lyndon Brown.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Taylor, Anna Living people 1982 births 21st-century New Zealand short story writers New Zealand women short story writers International Institute of Modern Letters alumni Writers from Wellington City 21st-century New Zealand women writers