Awards

• Commended for Highly Commended in the 2024 Bridport Memoir Award (UK) 2024
• Winner of Category Winner in the 2025 Memoir Prize for Books (US) 2025

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‘A testament to how, in memory, representation and survival, we endure, evolve, challenge others’ expectations, and overcome personal adversity.’—Memoir Magazine about What We Remember, What We Forget ‘Harvey holds this contemporary issue in view while also weaving in her own story, one ultimately fraught with a failure to be accepted into her family because of the ‘contamination’ inherent to her ‘unlovable’ self. The essay picks apart the fragments of memory, experience, and pain that make up a life like this, and performs the same kind of failure that lies behind the painfully reductive attempt to pick up the pieces.’ — Lynley Edmeades, Landfall 246: Spring 2023

Author Information

Siobhan Harvey is the author of nine books, including Kathleen Grattan Poetry Award winning Cloudboy (OUP, 2014), the Ockham New Zealand Book Award longlisted Ghosts (OUP, 2021) and, as co-editor, the best selling Essential New Zealand Poems (Godwit, 2014). In 2023, she won the Landfall Tauraka Essay Competition for ‘A Jigsaw of Broken Things’. She’s also received the 2021 Janet Frame Literary Trust Award for Poetry, 2020 NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship. 2019 Kathleen Grattan Award for a Sequence of Poems, 2019 Robert Burns Poetry Prize and 2016 Write Well Award (US). The Poetry Archive (UK) holds a ‘Poet’s Page’ devoted to her work. The manuscript of What We Remember, What We Forget was the category winner in the 2025 Memoir Prize for Books (US) and highly commended for the Bridport Memoir Award (UK). Harvey is a senior lecturer in creative writing at AUT.

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