Ruby Porter: 2023
Emerging Writers Residency

Ruby Porter: 2023
Emerging Writers Residency

Ruby Porter: 2023
Emerging Writers Residency
1706 1706 Michael King Writers Centre

Our final writer-in-residence for the year, Ruby is a prose-writer, poet and artist. She tutors creative writing at the University of Auckland, and in high schools. She was the winner of the Wallace Foundation Short Fiction Award in 2017, and the inaugural winner of the Michael Gifkins Prize in 2018, with her debut novel Attraction. Attraction was written during her Master of Creative Writing at the University of Auckland, and published in 2019 by Melbourne-based Text Publishing. It is distributed throughout Australia, New Zealand and North America.

*Photo by Claire R. Foley