K. T. Harrison

Ngāti Paoa

Harrison writes: “My marae is Waiti. I grew up in Tokoroa and I lived and worked in South Auckland (Mangere) for twenty years. I have five children and, at present, four grandchildren. I am a [retired] registered nurse and I work for a Māori mental health services group. My main interests are reading and writing.’

KT Harrison's 'Porirua' won the Best Novel Extract Written in English category at the 2009 Pikihuia Awards. In 2011 her work 'Waiwhetū Wishes' was a finalist in the Best Novel Extract category and 'A Picnic with the Bears' was published in Huia Short Stories 11 in 2015.

'Harrison holds degrees from the Univrsity of Waikato and AUT, where she graduated with a Masters in Creative Writing, and her short ficion has been a finalist or winner at the Pikihuia Awards on four occasions since 2001. Her stories have been published in four different Huia Short Stories anthologies, as well as the 2016 Huia anthology Stories on the Four Winds: Ngā Hau e Whā, and in the literary journals takahē and Mayhem.'

Biographical sources

  • Huia Short Stories 4: Contemporary Māori Fiction. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2001: 263.
  • http://www.booksellers.co.nz/book-news/trade-news/pikihuia-short-story-finalists-announced 15 November 2016
  • HIWA: Contemporary Māori Short Stories. Edited by Paula Morris, Consulting Editor: Darryn Joseph Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press, 2023. 57.

    Fiction

  • "Media Studies." Huia Short Stories 4: Contemporary Māori Fiction. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2001: 111-114.
  • "Porirua." Huia Short Stories 8. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2009.
  • "Waiwhetū Wishes." Huia Short Stories 9. Huia Publishers, 2011.
  • "Baking Day." takahē 74 (Summer 2011): 5-8.
  • "The things I carry : by J-O-R-D-A-N." Mayhem literary journal, n.1, Mar 2014.
  • "A Picnic with the Bears." Huia Short Stories 11. Huia Publishers, 2015.
  • "Once upon a pretty girl." Mayhem literary journal n.3 (Oct 2015): 4.
  • Colours. HIWA: Contemporary Māori Short Stories. Edited by Paula Morris, Consulting Editor: Darryn Joseph. Auckland, NZ: Auckland University Press, 2023. 59-68.

  • Poetry

  • "Three poems." Mayhem literary journal n.1, Mar 2014.
  • "Where do you go to my lovely (from 'Corina goes to Wellington')." Mayhem literary journal n.2, Dec 2014.
  • "Theoretical fringe benefits." Mayhem literary journal, n.3 (Oct 2015): 5.