Ingrid Horrocks

Author photo: Ebony Lamb

Ingrid Horrocks's books include the short story collection All Her Lives (2025), a finalist for the 2026 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, the memoir Where We Swim (2021), a literary history, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility (2017), and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, The Spinoff, Landfall, and the Guardian. In 2024 she was the Kaituhi Tarāwhare CNZ Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and in 2025 she was awarded the Michael King Writers Centre Australian Residency at Varuna. Ingrid lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, with her partner and twin daughters.