Adrienne Jansen is a New Zealand creative writing teacher, editor and a writer of fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
[1] She worked with Guy Jansen in the last years of his life on his book Sing New Zealand: the story of choral music in Aotearoa.
[11] In 1990, Jansen was a Winston Churchill Fellow, travelling to Canada and the United Kingdom to look at access to education for disadvantaged groups in those countries.
[1] This was the first full-year, full-time writing course in New Zealand, and it was designed by Jansen to be accessible to all and to encourage diversity and inclusiveness.
[13][14] She was co-founder of Whitireia Creative Writing Programme's Escalator Press in 2013[5] and her novel The Score was the first book to be published by this new imprint.