Stephanie Patricia Johnson MNZM (born 1961) is a poet, playwright, and short story writer from New Zealand. She lives in Auckland with her husband, film editor Tim Woodhouse, although she lived in Australia for much of her twenties.[1] Many of her books have been published there, and her non-fiction book West Island, about New Zealanders in Australia, is partly autobiographical.[1]
Johnson was born in Auckland in 1961.[2]
Johnson has taught creative writing at the University of Auckland, the University of Waikato, Auckland University of Technology and Massey University.[3] She co-founded the Auckland Writers' Festival with Peter Wells, and served as creative director and trustee.[3][4][5]
Johnson has published novels, poetry, plays, and collections of short stories.
In 1985, Johnson won the Bruce Mason Playwriting Award.[6]
In the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, The Whistler, was shortlisted for the fiction award in 1999[4] and Belief was shortlisted in 2001.[2]
The Shag Incident was awarded the Deutz Medal for Fiction at the 2003 Montana New Zealand Book Awards.[7]
Johnson also won the 1996 Dymocks/Quote Unquote Reader's Poll, Best New Zealand Book for The Heart’s Wild Surf and Crimes of Neglect, was shortlisted for the 1993 Wattie Book Awards.[8]
Music From a Distant Room (in 2006) and John Tomb's Head (in 2008) were nominated for International Dublin Literary Award.[9][10]
In the 2019 Queen's Birthday Honours, Johnson was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.[11]
In 2022, she received the Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement in Fiction.[12]
Johnson received the 2000 New Zealand Post Katherine Mansfield Prize, allowing her to travel to Menton, France.[4] She received the University of Auckland Literary Fellowship in 2001.[2] In 2016 she was selected as the Randell Cottage Writer in Residence.[3][13]
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