Ingrid is a writer from Aotearoa New Zealand.
Her
books include the short story collection All Her Lives (2025), the memoir Where We Swim (2021), a literary history, Women Wanderers and the Writing of Mobility (2017), published by Cambridge University Press, and two collections of poetry. Her essays and fiction have appeared in Lithub, The Ninth Letter, The Sydney Review of Books, Newsroom, The Spinoff, Landfall, and the Guardian.
In 2024 Ingrid was the Kaituhi Tarāwhare Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence at the International Institute of Modern Letters at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington and in 2025 she was awarded the Michael King Writers Centre Australian Residency at Varuna National Writer’s House. She is a member of the Academy of New Zealand Literature.
Ingrid is an experienced teacher, mentor, chair, and workshop leader. She runs a year-long online course for the Faber Academy at Allen & Unwin on ‘Writing a Nonfiction Book’, and she has been a Teaching Fellow at Te Herenga Waka. She
was a Commonwealth Scholar in the UK in 1999, did a PhD at Princeton University, and taught at Massey University for over a decade, where she was made a Professor in Creative Writing and English just before leaving in 2022.
Her previous books include the genre-bending Travelling with Augusta: 1835 and 1999, part memoir, part love story, part history of women’s travel. She has also edited modern editions of work by pioneering women writers, Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith, and co-edited a collection of personal essays, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place for Aotearoa New Zealand.
Ingrid lives in Te Whanganui a Tara, Wellington, near the south coast, with her partner and twin daughters.
