Gregory O’Brien (born 1961 in Matamata New Zealand), is a New Zealand poet, painter and editor.
He trained as a journalist in Auckland and worked as a newspaper reporter in Northland. He graduated from the University of Auckland.
His work has appeared in Islands, Landfall and Sport, Meanjin, Scripsi. He lives in Wellington where he is Senior Curator at the City Gallery Wellington.
Awards and honours
1988 Sargeson Fellowship1995 Victoria University writing fellow1997 Montana New Zealand Book Award for Poetry2012 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement"Rocks, Te Namu Pa, Taranaki"; "Untitled"; "Beausoleil", "European", Shearsman 59"Printmaking Studio of John Drawbridge, Island Bay, Wellington", Shearsman 67/68"Wet Jacket Arm", Jacket 35, Early 2008Location of the Least Person (opening with the ‘Old Man South Road’ sequence), was published in Auckland in 1987Dunes and Barns (1988)Man with a Child’s Violin (1990)Great Lake (Sydney, 1991)Malachi, a charming verse novella (Adelaide, 1993)Days Beside Water, Auckland in 1993Winter I Was (Victoria University Press, 1999)Afternoon of an Evening Train (Victoria University Press, Wellington, 2005)Diesel Mystic (1989),Vincent O'Sullivan, ed. (1987). An Anthology of twentieth century New Zealand poetry. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-558163-8. "Running Dog The Poetry of Ken Bolton", Sport 16: Autumn 1996After Bathing At Baxter's, Victoria University Press, 2002.News of the Swimmer Reaches Shore (Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2007)Jenny Bornholdt; Gregory O'Brien; Mark Williams, eds. (1997). An anthology of New Zealand poetry in English. Oxford University Press New Zealand. ISBN 978-0-19-558338-0. 