Gregory Leo O’BrienMNZM (born 1961) is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
New Zealand poet, painter and editor
O'Brien in 2014
Life
Born in Matamata in 1961, O'Brien trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckland.[1]
His work has appeared in Islands, Landfall, Sport, Meanjin and Scripsi.
He lives in Wellington.
Awards and honours
1988 Sargeson Fellowship
1995 Victoria University Writing Fellow
1997 Landfall Essay Competition
1997 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry
2005 LIANZA Elsie Locke Non-Fiction Award
2008 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Reference and Anthology
2012 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement[2]
In the 2014 New Year Honours, O'Brien was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts.[3]
After Bathing At Baxter's, Victoria University Press, 2002.
News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2007)
A Nest of Singing Birds: 100 Years of the New Zealand School Journal (Learning Media Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand, 2007)
Editor
Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien; Mark Williams, eds. (1997). An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN978-0-19-558338-0.
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