Mapping the Distance

by Ingrid Horrocks

79 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

I am a nonfiction writer, critic and poet from Aotearoa New Zealand. My latest book, Where We Swim, a blend of memoir, travel and nature writing, is published in New Zealand and Australian editions in 2021.
My previous books include the genre-bending Travelling with Augusta: 1835 and 1999, part memoir, part love story, part history of women’s travel. I’m pretty obsessed with what happens to people on the move and I’ve written a book on the history of women wanderers in fiction, poetry and travel books, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility. As part of this, I got to edit a new edition of pioneering feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s dazzling 1796 travel book. I’ve also published two poetry books, and co-edited a collection of personal essays, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place for Aotearoa New Zealand.

Awards for my writing include a Michael King Writers Residency and the Macmillan Brown Prize for Writers. I was a Commonwealth Scholar, did a PhD at Princeton University, and am now an Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Massey University, Wellington. I am a member of the NonfictioNOW International Board, currently organising NonfictioNOW2021, to be held in Wellington in December 2021. I am especially interested in building Trans-Tasman literary connections and am a Consultant NZ-Aotearoa Editor to the Sydney Review of Books.

I live in Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington, near the south coast, with my partner and twin daughters. I’m a keen, if not a very good, swimmer.

Reviews

[Alice · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for a writing class. Self assigned. Enjoyed this.