Sarah Quigley

Sarah Quigley is a New Zealand writer.

Background Sarah Quigley was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on the 1 October 1967. She has an MA Hons from the University of Canterbury, on the poetry of Charles Brasch, and a DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford. After winning the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2000, she divided her time between Germany and New Zealand. She met her Swedish-born husband in Berlin.

Career A graduate of Bill Manhire’s creative writing course, Quigley won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998. Her short stories and poetry have been widely broadcast and published, and she has won many prizes including the Sunday Star-Times Short Story Award and the Commonwealth Pacific Rim Short Story Award. Her publications include novels, short fiction, a creative writing manual and poetry collections, many of which have sold internationally. Her novel The Conductor (2011) was the highest-selling adult fiction title in New Zealand in 2011, staying at number one for 20 weeks. It was longlisted for the 2012 International IMPAC Award and was shortlisted for the Prix Femina in France. Quigley won the Creative New Zealand Berlin Writers Residency in 2000.

Works Novels The divorce diaries (2020) The Suicide Club (2017) The Conductor (2011) Fifty Days (2004) Shot (2003) After Robert (2000) having words with you (1998)

Short stories Tenderness (2014), collection of short stories Work by Quigley was included in: Primal Picnics (2011) The Best of New Zealand Fiction 5 (2008) Second Violins (2008) The Cat's Whiskers (2008) The Best of New Zealand Fiction 4 (2007) Sunday 22 (2006) Landfall 209 (2005) The Best of New Zealand Fiction 1 (2004) Essential New Zealand Short Stories (2002) 100 NZ Short Short Stories (1997)

Poetry Love in a Bookstore or Your Money Back (2003), collected poems New Poetry 1 (1999), with Anna Jackson and Raewyn Alexander) Poems by Quigley were included in: New New Zealand Poets in Performance (2008)

Non-fiction Write: a 30 day guide to creative writing (2006)