Wendy Parkins

Wendy Parkins is a Dunedin writer of fiction and non-fiction and won the Ngaio

Marsh Award for Best First Novel in 2025 for The Defiance of Frances Dickinson

(Affirm Press, 2024). Her memoir, Every Morning, So Far, I’m Alive was published in

2019 (Otago UP). She is currently working on a historical novel based on a Dickens

character and an essay collection exploring midlife and tidal landscapes. In a

previous life, she was a Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Kent,

UK, and an Associate Professor at the University of Otago.