Kerry Harrison

Kerry Harrison grew up as the youngest of five, in Seatoun, Wellington.  Her childhood was spent in the outdoors, swimming, biking, horse-riding and tramping with her mother. She was surrounded by a large, musical and lively extended family. She went to boarding school in New Plymouth. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and English, Diplomas in Teaching and Drama and has taught English and Drama for thirty-five years.

Kerry is a graduate of the Master of Creative Writing programme at AUT.  She’s had poetry and a number of short stories published in literary magazines, several in Landfall and was a semi-finalist in the Sunday Star Short Story Competition.  Kerry was accepted, out of 200 applicants as one of 12 in the first year of Karl Stead and Michael Gifkins Stage 3 English, Creative Writing Course at Auckland University in 1983. Her novel Wahine was published in 2011.