Dr Siobhan Harvey
08 May, 2026
Dr Siobhan Harvey, a senior lecturer in creative writing, had her ninth book – a memoir, What We Remember, What We Forget – published by Otago University Press.
In genesis, this book won the 2023 Landfall Essay Competition (NZ), was highly commended in the 2024 Bridport Memoir Awards (UK) and was a category winner in the 2025 Memoir Prize for Books (US).
The book is a personal narrative and poignant meditation on the power and peril of remembering – as well as of forgetting.