Chris Price

Chris Price (born 1962) is a poet, editor and creative writing teacher. She lives in Wellington, New Zealand.

Biography Price was born in 1962 in Reading, Berkshire, and moved with her family from England to Auckland in 1966. She came from a family of great readers. At secondary school, her entry in a school poetry award judged by Lauris Edmond was highly commended, and at university she took a writing workshop taught by C.K. Stead.

She was an editor for Reed Publishing from 1989 until 1993, and in 2006, she was part of the Are Angels OK? Project, in which ten New Zealand writers and scientists collaborated in pairs as a way to mark the International Year of Physics. In 2012, she was one of three New Zealand and three German poets in another collaborative writing project, the Transit of Venus Poetry Exchange. The resulting work formed part of New Zealand's Guest of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2012, and Transit of Venus / Venustransit was published by Victoria University Press in 2016.

Price taught the undergraduate Poetry workshop at the International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) at Victoria University of Wellington from 2004 to 2009,

Brief Lives was shortlisted in the biography category for the 2007 Montana New Zealand Book Awards

Price's essay "The Lobster's Tail" was longlisted for the Notting Hill Essay Prize in 2015.

In 2015 she was awarded a residency at the Château Lavigny, Switzerland. Brief Lives (Auckland University Press, 2006) The Blind Singer (2009) Beside Herself, drawings by Leo Bensemann (Auckland University Press, 2016)