Michael Morrissey
Michael Morrissey is a versatile and often innovative poet and fiction writer, who received the Auckland University Writer's Bursary for 1977, and published his first book of poetry, Make Love in All the Rooms, the following year. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury in 1979, and in 1981 gained a Fulbright travel grant to visit America. He won the 1982 PEN Award for Best First Book of Fiction, and since that time has been a widely published novelist and poet, as well as...See more
Michael Morrissey is a versatile and often innovative poet and fiction writer, who received the Auckland University Writer's Bursary for 1977, and published his first book of poetry, Make Love in All the Rooms, the following year. He was writer-in-residence at the University of Canterbury in 1979, and in 1981 gained a Fulbright travel grant to visit America. He won the 1982 PEN Award for Best First Book of Fiction, and since that time has been a widely published novelist and poet, as well as writing for stage, radio and film. He edited the first edition of the Flamingo Anthology of New Zealand Short Stories in 2000. See less
