Anna Jackson is a poet and academic, born in 1967. She received a DPhil from Oxford University and currently teaches English literature at Victoria University of Wellington. She has written several poetry collections including Thicket and I, Clodia, and Other Portraits. She is also the author of Diary Poetics: Form and Style in Writers' Diaries 1915-1962 and British Juvenile Fiction 1850-1950: The Age of Adolescence written with Charles Ferrall. In 2015 she won the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship. This fellowship provides the winner with a three-month residency in Menton, France, and a monetary award of NZ$35,000. Her novella, The Bed-Making Competition (2018), won a 2018 Viva la Novella prize.
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