Ingrid Horrocks

Ingrid Horrocks is the author of the memoir Where We Swim, a literary history, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility, and two collections of poetry. Her writing has appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, The Spinoff, Landfall, and the Guardian. She completed a PhD at Princeton and teaches for the Faber Writing Academy. In 2024, Ingrid was the Creative NZ Writer in Residence at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, and in 2025 she was an International Exchange resident at Varuna National Writers House. All Her Lives was the winner of the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2026 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Ingrid lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington, with her partner and twin daughters. All Her Lives is her first book of fiction.