Rate My Professor Sue Wootton

Wootton’s publications include five poetry collections, notably Hourglass (Steele Roberts, 2005), By Birdlight (Steele Roberts, 2011), Out of Shape (Ampersand Duck, 2013), and The Yield (Otago University Press, 2017); the novel Strip (Mākaro Press, 2016); the short story collection The Happiest Music on Earth (Rosa Mira Books, 2013); and the children’s book Cloudcatcher (Steele Roberts, 2010). Her work appears widely in New Zealand and international anthologies, with translations into Hungarian, Romanian, Spanish, and Vietnamese. She has received the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship (2020), NZSA Peter & Dianne Beatson Fellowship (2018), and the Robert Burns Fellowship (2008), along with shortlistings for the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards for The Yield (2018) and Strip (2017), and various poetry prizes including the Kathleen Grattan Prize for a Sequence of Poems (2025) and the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize (2015). Since 2021, as Publisher at Otago University Press, she oversees editorial, production, and publicity, contributing to the dissemination of scholarly and creative works. Her influence extends through judging literary competitions, such as the 2020 Writer competition, and co-editing the Corpus medical humanities blog.