Jackie Lee Morrison

Jackie was born and raised in London in a Hong-Kong-Chinese family, but now calls New Zealand home.

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She holds a Jt. Hons. degree in English & American Studies from the University of Nottingham, and an MA in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She has been lucky to count among her mentors Julian Bell, Rob Young, Pete Rock, Gretchen Icenogle, Elizabeth Knox, and Sue Orr.

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Jackie spent most of her adult life working as a freelance food writer and pastry chef. At the end of 2016, Jackie, her husband, and their two cats moved to Wellington, where she opened her small business Lashings (permanently closed in 2022) and rediscovered her love of writing.

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Jackie's work has been published in Newsroom, Headland, The Spinoff, Turbine | Kapohau, Capital magazine, takahē magazine, and Kete Books. She was a co-editor of Turbine | Kapohau 2022, named as one of the six highly commended entries in the prestigious Sargeson Prize 2023, and works as a freelance writer and editor.

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Jackie is currently working on her debut novel Swimming With Tigers, a coming-of-age family drama with a historical setting, set in Hong Kong in the seventies and eighties. She won an IIML Project Scholarship and a Creative NZ grant for the completion of this manuscript, and is represented by Naomi Eisenbeiss at InkWell Management.

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