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Paula Morris (born 18 August 1965) is a novelist and short story writer from New Zealand. ==Life== Morris was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. Her father is a New Zealander and her mother is English; the family's tribal affiliations are Ngāti Wai and Ngāti Whātua. She graduated from the University of Auckland in 1985 with a BA in English and history, and moved to the UK the same year. After completing a D. Phil at the University of York, under the supervision of Hermione Lee, and after a brief stint living in Manchester, she moved to London – working for BBC Radio 3 as a production assistant, Virgin Records as Press Officer for Virgin Classics, and PolyGram (now Universal) as Press and Promotions Manager for Philips.〔(About Paula « Paula Morris, New Zealand Author )〕 In 1994 Morris moved to New York to become Product Manager for the German record label ECM,〔(Billboard – Google Books )〕 then distributed by BMG. During her four years at BMG Classics she rose to become Label Director of ECM and eventually Vice-President of Marketing for World Music and Jazz.〔books.google.co.uk/books?id=6w4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14&lpg=PA14&dq=paula+morris+bmg&source=bl&ots=JuVL0FB-6J&sig=duBN0-fowGmLkD14Lanto7GPIlQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZYMWUdPMMO-S0QXoxYCwAQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=paula morris bmg&f=false〕 Morris began taking fiction-writing classes at the West Side Y in 1997,〔(Interview with Paula Morris | Book Divas )〕 and started making her living from writing two years later, freelancing as a copywriter and promotions manager for ''The New York Times'', writing encyclopaedia entries for Contemporary Black Biography,〔(King Oliver Facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles about King Oliver )〕 and also working as a freelance branding consultant. In 2001 she moved back to New Zealand to join the MA in Creative Writing program at Victoria University of Wellington, where she was taught by Bill Manhire.〔(Paula Morris interview – Book Club – Books – The Listener )〕 From 2002–04 Morris attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship (2002–03)〔(Prize Winners – International Institute of Modern Letters – Victoria University of Wellington )〕 and a Teaching-Writing Fellowship (2003–04),〔(New Zealand Book Council )〕 graduating with an MFA. In the spring of 2003 she was also the University of Iowa International Program's Writer-in-Residence.〔(Writer-in-Residence To Speak April 21 – University News Service – The University of Iowa )〕 From 2005–2010 Morris was Assistant Professor at Tulane University in New Orleans,〔(For novelist Paula Morris, the shadows in New Orleans history invite exploration | NOLA.com )〕 moving back to the UK in 2010 to teach at the University of Stirling in Scotland. At Stirling she was program director of the new MLitt in Creative Writing (Prose).〔(An Interview with Paula Morris | The Gothic Imagination )〕 From 2012-2014 she was Fiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Sheffield.〔(Morris – Staff – English – The University of Sheffield ) She now teaches creative writing at the University of Auckland.〕 Her short story "False River" was shortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=World's Richest Story Prize )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paula Morris」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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