Our tenth writer-in-residence for the year, Ingrid, is working on a collection of interconnected short stories from women’s lives over a two-hundred-year period. Some of the stories are based on historical lives, others on purely fictional characters, but all are anchored in a particular historical moment. Each story focuses on a pivotal several week period in their female protagonist’s life.
Her previous books include; Where We Swim, (VUP, 2021), Travelling with Augusta: 1835 and 1999 (VUP, 2003), Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility 1784–1814 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and two collections of poetry. With Cherie Lacey, she is the co-editor of Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand (VUP, 2016). She is a member of the NonfictioNOW International Board, and a Contributing NZ-Aotearoa Editor to the Sydney Review of Books.
Ingrid teaches creative writing at Massey University and lives in Wellington with her partner and two daughters.
Ingrid’s residency project, All Her Lives: nine stories, was published in October 2025.
‘In the Meantime: Shipwrecks of the Self’, an essay on being at Princeton on 9/11