Pip Adam

Pip Adam is a novelist, short story writer, and reviewer from New Zealand.

Education and background Adam was born in Christchurch, New Zealand. She attended the New Zealand Film and Television School in Christchurch before moving to Dunedin. Adam has an MA in Library and Information Studies and an MA in creative writing from Victoria University of Wellington. In 2012, she completed her PhD, also from Victoria University, supervised by Damien Wilkins.

Career

Adam has been published in a number of literary journals including Overland (2015), takahē (2014), Fire Dials (2014), Sport (2008–2014), Landfall (2009, 2010), and Hue & Cry (2007–2013). She also hosts the Better off Read podcast.

The photographer Ann Shelton used writing by Adam in her 2015 installation House Work: a project about a house.

Adam has taught creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington, Massey University and at Whitirea New Zealand. With the Write Where You Are collective, she has taught writing at the Arohata Women's Prison. In February 2023, it was reported that The New Animals would be published in the USA.

Personal life

Adam lives with her partner, Brent McIntyre, and their son, Bo Adam, in Wellington.

Adam also received the New Generation Award in the 2012 Macquarie Private Wealth New Zealand Arts Awards from the Arts Foundation of New Zealand and was a runner up in the 2007 Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition. and Nothing to See was shortlisted for the same award in 2021.

Audition was shortlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Audition made longlist for the 2025 International Dublin Literary Award.

Audition is currently shortlisted for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction.