{{short description|New Zealand author, artist, broadcaster and curator}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox writer | name = Sheridan Keith | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1942}} | birth_place = Wellington, New Zealand | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = {{Cslist|Author|artist|broadcaster|curator}} | nationality = New Zealander | notable_works = ''Zoology'' (1995) }}
'''Sheridan Keith''' (born 1942) is a New Zealand author, artist, broadcaster and curator.
==Life and career== Keith was born in Wellington in 1942.<ref name="Sharp">{{cite news |last1=Sharp |first1=Iain |title=Sexuality fascinates book awards winner |work=Sunday Star-Times |date=4 August 1996 |page=E6}}</ref><ref name="Read NZ">{{cite web |title=Keith, Sheridan |url=https://www.read-nz.org/writer/keith-sheridan/ |website=Read NZ Te Pou Muramura |access-date=4 March 2021}}</ref> She is the daughter of ceramic artist and painter June Black.<ref name="Viva">{{cite news |last1=Downs |first1=Sarah |title=Favourite Things: Artist and Author Sheridan Keith |url=https://www.viva.co.nz/article/at-home/artist-author-sheridan-keith/ |access-date=4 March 2021 |work=Viva |date=13 August 2017}}</ref> She studied zoology and English literature at Victoria University of Wellington.<ref name="OCNZL">{{cite encyclopedia |last=Cooper |first=Ronda |editor1-last=Robinson |editor1-first=Roger |editor2-last=Wattie |editor2-first=Nelson |encyclopedia=The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature |title=Keith, Sheridan |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001/acref-9780195583489-e-640 |access-date=4 March 2021 |date=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-1917-3519-6 |oclc=865265749 |doi=10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001|url-access=subscription }}</ref> During the 1960s she spent a decade living in London, and returned to New Zealand in 1974, where she worked as a journalist for several years before beginning to write fiction.<ref name="Sharp"/>
Her work has included broadcasting, journalism and teaching creative writing, and her writing has been published in ''The London Magazine'', ''Landfall'', the ''New Zealand Listener'' and other magazines.<ref name="OCNZL"/> Her first collection of short stories, ''Shallow are the Smiles at the Supermarket'' (1991) was shortlisted in the Best First Book category of the Commonwealth Writers Prize.<ref name="OCNZL"/> Her first novel, ''Zoology'' (1995), grew out of a short story included in her second collection of short stories, ''Animal Passions'' (1992).<ref name="Sharp"/> It won the Fiction Award at the 1996 Montana Book Awards.<ref name="OCNZL"/><ref>{{cite web |title=Past Winners: 1995 |url=https://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners/?year=1996 |website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust |access-date=4 March 2021}}</ref> Academic Terry Sturm said Keith's short stories "focus on the practices and aspirations of women in a demanding world".<ref>{{cite book | last=Sturm | first=Terry | title=The Oxford history of New Zealand literature in English | publisher=Oxford University Press | publication-place=Auckland, N.Z. | date=1991 | isbn=0-19-558211-X |page=313| oclc=24378310}}</ref>
Since around 1995, Keith has owned a gallery called Blikfang Art and Antiques in Northcote, a suburb of Auckland.<ref name="OCNZL"/><ref name="Viva"/><ref>{{cite news |title=North Shore treasure trove |work= The New Zealand Herald |date=11 March 2005}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://culturalicons.co.nz/75-sheridan-keith/ Interview with Sheridan Keith for Cultural Icons project] * [https://www.read-nz.org/writer/keith-sheridan/ Biography] at Read NZ Te Pou Muramura
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