Biography

Siobhan Harvey

Siobhan Harvey is a poet and nonfiction author. Her new poetry collection, Cloudboy, won the 2013 Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry. Her other works include Lost Relatives, Words Chosen Carefully: New Zealand Writers In Conversation and Our Own Kind: 100 New Zealand Poems about Animals. Additionally, she was runner up in 2012 Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize and 2012 Kevin Ireland Poetry Competition, and, for her creative non-fiction, Highly Commended in 2013 Landfall Essay Prize and runner up in 2011 Landfall Essay Competition. She has a Poet’s Page on The Poetry Archive (UK), co-directed by Sir Andrew Motion.