Sheridan Keith

Keith was born in Wellington in 1942.^[1][2] She is the daughter of ceramic artist and painter June Black.^[3] She studied zoology and English literature at Victoria University of Wellington.^[4] During the 1960s she spent a decade living in London, and returned to New Zealand in 1974, where she worked as a journalist for several years before beginning to write fiction.^[1]

Her work has included broadcasting, journalism and teaching creative writing, and her writing has been published in The London Magazine, Landfall, the New Zealand Listener and other magazines.^[4] Her first collection of short stories, Shallow are the Smiles at the Supermarket (1991) was shortlisted in the Best First Book category of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.^[4] Her first novel, Zoology (1995), grew out of a short story included in her second collection of short stories, Animal Passions (1992).^[1] It won the Fiction Award at the 1996 Montana Book Awards.^[4][5] Academic Terry Sturm said Keith's short stories "focus on the practices and aspirations of women in a demanding world".^[6]

Since around 1995, Keith has owned a gallery called Blikfang Art and Antiques in Northcote, a suburb of Auckland.^[4][3][7]

• Interview with Sheridan Keith for Cultural Icons project
• Biography at Read NZ Te Pou Muramura

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