Siobhan Harvey

Siobhan Harvey is an author of eight books, including Landfall Kathleen Grattan Award winner, Cloudboy (Otago University Press, 2014) and, as co-editor, the New Zealand bestseller, Essential New Zealand Poems (Penguin Random House, 2014). She was runner up in 2024 Bridport Memoir Award (UK) and won 2023 Landfall Essay Prize, 2020 NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, 2019 Kathleen Grattan Award for a Sequence of Poems, 2019 UNESCO City of Literature Robert Burns Poetry Prize and 2016 US Write Well Award. Additionally, she has been runner up 3 times in New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition, 3 times selected for inclusion in Best New Zealand Poems, runner up, third and highly commended for the Landfall Essay Prize, and long-listed for Australian Book Review Peter Porter Prize and New Zealand Book Awards. In 2021 she was awarded the Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry.