Our Own Kind

by Siobhan Harvey (Editor)

Genres: Poetry

First published January 1, 2009

About the author

Harvey was born in Staffordshire, England in 1973. She graduated from the University of London, Sheffield Hallam University (MA in Creative Writing, 2001) and Auckland University of Technology (PhD in Creative Writing, 2021).

Harvey’s fiction has been published in literary journals and anthologies, such as Asia Literary Review (Hong Kong), Griffith Review (Australia) and Best of Auckland (Writers Café, 2020). Her fiction won a 2016 Write Well Award (Silver Pen, US).

Her creative nonfiction has been published in Griffith Review (Australia), Landfall and the anthology Feminine Rising: Voices of Power and Invisibility (Cyren Press, 2019). She has been shortlisted for the Landfall Essay Competition on multiple occasions, including being placed runner up (2011) and third (2020).

Harvey’s poetry has been selected three times for Best New Zealand Poems series: 2012 (guest editor, Ian Wedde) 2020 (guest editor, David Eggleton) and 2022 (guest editor, Louise Wallace) and has been placed runner-up in 2015 and 2014 New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competitions, the 2012 Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize (Australia) and the 2012 Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition.

Harvey has served as the president of the New Zealand Society of Authors (2017–2019),[11] New Zealand’s National Poetry Day Coordinator (2008–2013) [12] and Poetry Editor, Takahē literary magazine (2007–2014).

Abridged from Wikipedia