Emma Neale


Emma Neale is a novelist and poet from New Zealand.

Background

Neale was born in Dunedin and grew up in Christchurch, San Diego, and Wellington. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria University of Wellington and was awarded an MA and PhD from University College London. Following her graduation she returned to New Zealand to work for Longacre Press, working for ten years as editor then senior editor.

Works

Neale's first work was published in 1998 and her writing has been featured extensively in magazines, newspapers and journals, and several anthologies.

Novels

  • Night Swimming
  • Little Moon
  • Double Take
  • Relative Strangers
  • Fosterling
  • ''Billy Bird''

    Poetry

  • Sleeve-Notes
  • How to Make a Million
  • Spark
  • The Truth Garden
  • Tender Machines
  • To the Occupant
  • Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit
  • Poems included in the ''Best New Zealand Poems series''

    Editorial

Neale has served as editor for:
  • Creative Juices
  • Best New Zealand Poems
  • Swings and Roundabouts
  • Manifesto Aotearoa: 101 Political Poems
In October, 2017, Neale was appointed editor of Landfall, a literary journal published by Otago University Press.

Awards

Neale's work has been awarded and nominated for several literary prizes including:
In 2012, she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship, a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. She has also been awarded the Todd/Creative New Zealand New Writers Bursary, the Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship, and was a University of Otago/Sir James Wallace Pah Homestead Fellow.

Personal

She is a daughter of writer Barbara Else and her first husband James Neale.