Philip Armstrong writes poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. His work has appeared in a range of journals and anthologies in Aotearoa, Australia, the UK, and the USA. He has published two collections of poetry: Sinking Lessons (Otago UP 2020) and Touch Screen (Otago UP 2025).
Sinking Lessons won the Kathleen Grattan Award for Poetry in 2019; Philip’s earlier sequence Orpheus in Pieces was a runner-up for the same award in 2017. His poem “Time of Death” was runner-up in the Caselberg Trust International Poetry Prize competition in 2024. His essay “On Tenuous Grounds” won the Landfall Essay Prize in 2011.
Philip teaches literary studies, creative writing, and human-animal studies at the University of Canterbury / Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha in Ōtautahi / Christchurch. He has published several volumes of scholarship on Shakespeare, animals in literature and culture, and ecocriticism.
You are welcome to contact him at philip.armstrong@canterbury.ac.nz.
Philip Armstrong 