Ingrid Horrocks is a poet, essayist, travel writer and fiction writer from Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington. Her most recent book, Where We Swim (Te Herenga Waka UP and UQP, 2021), a blend of memoir, essay and nature writing, was described by the Australian Book Review as a “luminous” “work of wondrous depth.” Her non-fiction essays have appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, The Spinoff, Landfall, and the Guardian. In 2024, Ingrid was the Kaituhi Tarāwhare Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters and she was formerly a Professor of Creative Writing at Massey University. She has a PhD in literature from Princeton. Ingrid’s forthcoming debut book of fiction is called Nine Lives (Te Herenga Waka UP, 2025). www.ingridhorrocks.com