Michael Gifkins (1945 – 29 July 2014) was a New Zealand literary agent, short story writer, critic, publisher and editor.
Having written three collections of short stories himself in the 1980s, Gifkins later represented a number of leading New Zealand writers, including Lloyd Jones.
[1] As literary agent, Gifkins represented a number of leading New Zealand writers, including Lloyd Jones and Greg McGee.
[5] He also edited and published a number of anthologies, beginning with The Gramophone Room (with C. K. Stead in 1983) and Listener Short Stories 3 (1984),[3] and including Through The Looking Glass (1988), in which he collected the childhood recollections of 20 well-known New Zealanders.
He described Gifkins' writing as having a contemporary, modern focus, with several of the stories dealing with "the questing, mobile lifestyle of young adults".