Paula Morris
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Paula Jane Kiri Morris (born 18 August 1965) is a New Zealand novelist and short-story writer.
Life
Morris was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. Her father is a New Zealander and her mother is English; the family's tribal links are Ng-ti Wai, Ngti Manuhiri, and Ng'ti Whtua. She graduated from the University of Auckland in 1985 with a BA in English and history, then moved to the United Kingdom the same year. After completing a DPhil at the University of York under Hermione Lee's leadership, and following a brief stay in Manchester, she moved to London, where she served for BBC Radio 3 as a Press Officer for Virgin Classics and PolyGram (now Universal) as Press and Promotions Manager for Philips.
Morris moved to New York in 1994 to become Product Manager for the German record label ECM, which was then released by BMG. She rose to become Label Director of ECM and then Vice President of World Music and Jazz during her four years at BMG Classics.
Morris began taking fiction-writing classes at The West Side Y in 1997 and began earning her income as a copywriter and promotions manager for The New York Times, writing encyclopedia entries for Contemporary Black Biography, and also working as a freelance branding consultant. She returned to New Zealand in 2001 to complete the MA in Creative Writing program at the International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, where she was taught by Bill Manhire.
Morris attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship (2002–03) and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship (2004–04), earning an MFA. She served as the University of Iowa's Writer-in-Residence in 2003.
Morris was an assistant professor at Tulane University in New Orleans from 2005 to 2010, transferring to Scotland in 2010 to teach at the University of Stirling in Scotland. She was the program director of Stirling's nascent MLitt in Creative Writing (Prose).
Morris was fiction writer-in-residence at the University of Sheffield between 2012 and 2014. She has been teaching at the University of Auckland, where she chaires the Master of Creative Writing program.
The short story False River was shortlisted for the 2015 EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the world's highest award for a single short story. It's the title story of her book False River (Penguin, 2017), a book that weaves stories and essays around the subject of lies and obscure pasts, which is both the subject and fiction.
Career
Morris' MA dissertation research at Victoria University gained the Adam Foundation Prize in that year and became her first published book, Queen of Beauty (Penguin New Zealand, 2002). At the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards, it received the NZSA Best Book of Fiction.
Many of the stories that inspired Morris' dissertation research at Iowa, which was managed by Marilynne Robinson, are collected in Forbidden Cities (Penguin New Zealand, 2008), which was a finalist in the 2009 Commonwealth Prize SE Asia/Pacific region. Hibiscus Coast (Penguin New Zealand, 2005) and Trendy But Casual (Penguin New Zealand, 2007), two of which she wrote while living in New Orleans, were also published at Iowa Morris.
Rangatira's 2011 novel Rangatira received the best work of fiction at the 2012 New Zealand Post Book Awards, as well as the 2012 Ng Kupu Mori Book Awards. In 2012, Radio New Zealand serialized and broadcast the book, and Walde + Graf published it in German that year. It was longlisted for the 2013 International Dublin Literary Award.
Morris has appeared at literary festivals and conferences in the United States, China, New Zealand, Germany, and Switzerland, as well as a number of writer residencies, including the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 2008 (with Brigid Lowry). Morris undertook two editorial projects during her tenure as a Sargeson fellow: The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (2008) and an expatriate-writing issue of Landfall.
Ruined, her first Young Adult book, was also published by Scholastic US in 2009. Morris followed Dark Souls (2011) and Unbroken (2013), a sequel to Ruined. The Eternal City, her most recent Young Adult novel, is set in contemporary Rome. Morris released her first children's book in 2013, her second title in Puffin's New Zealand Girls collection: Hene and the Burning Harbour.
Morris has been given a number of residencies, including the Brecht House in Denmark and the Bellagio Foundation in Italy. She was a writer-in-residence at the Passa Porta International House of Literature in Brussels in 2016. In 2015 and 2017, she has held two residencies at the International Writers' and translators' House in Ventspils, Latvia.
Katherine Mansfield Menton Prize in 2018 was given in honor, and she was named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature.
Morris was co-editor of two major anthologies of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction: Ko Aotou (Otago University Press 2020) and Alison Wong, A New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press 2021). Shining Land, photographer Haru Sameshima, was a member of the Commonwealth University Press in 2020. (Otago University Press, 2020).
Morris introduced KoreaSeen, a website that publishes reviews and articles about Korean television and film, both classic and modern.
The Master of Creative Writing degree program is directed by an associate professor at the University of Auckland, Morris.