Stephanie de Montalk

Stephanie de Montalk (born 1945) is a poet and biographer from New Zealand.

Background Born in 1945, in New Zealand, de Montalk grew up in the Far North and Wellington. She trained at Wellington Hospital School of Nursing and received and MA and PhD in Creative Writing from Victoria University of Wellington. She has worked as a nurse, documentary filmmaker, and from 1996–2002 member of the New Zealand Film and Literature Board of Review.

Works Published works by de Montalk include: Five Poems (1989, chapbook), poetry Animals Indoors (2000, Victoria University Press), poetry The Scientific Evidence of Dr Wang (2002, Victoria University Press), poetry Cover Stories (2005, Victoria University Press), poetry The Fountain of Tears (2006, Victoria University Press), historical novel Vivid Familiar (2009, Victoria University Press), poetry de Montalk has also published in various literary journals including Landfall, Southerly, London Magazine, and New Zealand Listener.

In 2001, she published a biography of her second-cousin Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk entitled, Unquiet World: The Life of Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk.

In 2007, an engraving of her poem, Violinist at the Edge of an Ice Field was erected at the Franz Josef Glacier visitor centre.

In 2006 she was the Victoria University of Wellington Writer in Residence.

How Does It Hurt? won the Nigel Cox Award from Unity Books in 2015.