Michael James Terence Morrissey (Michael Morrissey) (born 1942) is a
New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, editor, feature
article writer, book reviewer and columnist. He is the author of
thirteen volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, a
memoir, two stage plays and four novels and he has edited five other
books.Michael Morrissey was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland
and studied law and English literature at the University of Auckland.
In 1967, he was the editor of Craccum, the University of Auckland
student newspaper. In the 1970s, he began publishing short stories in
Islands and Mate and later contributed stories and poems to literary
journals such as Landfall, Morepork, Climate, Poetry New Zealand,
Listener, Pilgrims, Rambling Jack, Printout, brief, Bravado, Comment,
Echoes, Tango, Cornucopia, IKA, Takahe, Phantom Billstickers, (New
Zealand); Blackmail, Trout (New Zealand online), Ocarina, Literary
Half Yearly (India); New Poetry, Poetry Australia, Mattoid, Inprint
(Australia); Gargoyle, Fiction International, Chelsea (United States);
Percutio (France).In 1979, he was the first Writer-in-Residence at the
University of Canterbury and in 1985, the first New Zealand
participant in the International Writing Programme at the University
of Iowa from which he earned an Honorary Fellowship in Writing. In
1986, he was the New Zealand delegate at the 48th World Congress of
International PEN in New York. While in New York, Morrissey met many
famous writers. Subsequently, he wrote obituaries based on personal
encounters with Saul Bellow (7 May 2005), Kurt Vonnegut (28 April
2007) and Norman Mailer (1 December 2007) â€" all published in the New
Zealand Listener. He has also written accounts of encounters with
Samuel Beckett and Susan Sontag, published in Brief magazine.A
Fulbright Cultural Travel Award in 1981 enabled him to visit several
leading American universities where he studied the teaching of
creative writing. On his return to New Zealand, he founded the Waiheke
Summer Writing School which ran from 1983 to 1991. He has taught
creative writing through several Community Education Centres, and
Continuing Education, University of Auckland, and was a tutor at the
New Zealand Institute of Business Studies, Auckland between 2008 and
2010.
New Zealand poet, short story writer, novelist, editor, feature
article writer, book reviewer and columnist. He is the author of
thirteen volumes of poetry, two collections of short stories, a
memoir, two stage plays and four novels and he has edited five other
books.Michael Morrissey was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland
and studied law and English literature at the University of Auckland.
In 1967, he was the editor of Craccum, the University of Auckland
student newspaper. In the 1970s, he began publishing short stories in
Islands and Mate and later contributed stories and poems to literary
journals such as Landfall, Morepork, Climate, Poetry New Zealand,
Listener, Pilgrims, Rambling Jack, Printout, brief, Bravado, Comment,
Echoes, Tango, Cornucopia, IKA, Takahe, Phantom Billstickers, (New
Zealand); Blackmail, Trout (New Zealand online), Ocarina, Literary
Half Yearly (India); New Poetry, Poetry Australia, Mattoid, Inprint
(Australia); Gargoyle, Fiction International, Chelsea (United States);
Percutio (France).In 1979, he was the first Writer-in-Residence at the
University of Canterbury and in 1985, the first New Zealand
participant in the International Writing Programme at the University
of Iowa from which he earned an Honorary Fellowship in Writing. In
1986, he was the New Zealand delegate at the 48th World Congress of
International PEN in New York. While in New York, Morrissey met many
famous writers. Subsequently, he wrote obituaries based on personal
encounters with Saul Bellow (7 May 2005), Kurt Vonnegut (28 April
2007) and Norman Mailer (1 December 2007) â€" all published in the New
Zealand Listener. He has also written accounts of encounters with
Samuel Beckett and Susan Sontag, published in Brief magazine.A
Fulbright Cultural Travel Award in 1981 enabled him to visit several
leading American universities where he studied the teaching of
creative writing. On his return to New Zealand, he founded the Waiheke
Summer Writing School which ran from 1983 to 1991. He has taught
creative writing through several Community Education Centres, and
Continuing Education, University of Auckland, and was a tutor at the
New Zealand Institute of Business Studies, Auckland between 2008 and
2010.
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