Ingrid Horrocks is a creative writing teacher, poet, travel writer, editor and essayist.

[2] She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Victoria University of Wellington (1998) and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study women’s travel writing at the University of York, where she graduated with Master of Arts (Distinction) in Eighteenth Century Studies (2001).

[1][4] Her work includes scholarly editions of works by Mary Wollstonecraft and Charlotte Smith, articles in journals and online, conference papers and book chapters, including Chapter One (‘A World of Waters: Imagining, Voyaging, Entanglement’) in A History of New Zealand Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

"[7][8] Horrocks was Associate Professor in English and Creative Writing at Massey University in Wellington, finishing in 2022.

[12] In 2016, she received the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Teaching Award from Massey University for her innovative creative non-fiction courses.