Sophie Tomlinson

Sophie Tomlinson grew up in Wellington, New Zealand where she studied English, Music and Italian at Victoria University of Wellington /Te Herenga Waka. Her childhood was spent rising early for swimming training, flute and piano practice or blackberry picking and gathering mushrooms on the Karori hills on Sundays.
After doctoral study at Cambridge University in the late 1980s, she returned to a job teaching Shakespeare and early modern literature at the University of Auckland. She maintains a strong interest in New Zealand writing.