[5] A graduate of Bill Manhire’s creative writing course, Quigley won the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 1998.

Her publications include novels, short fiction, a creative writing manual and poetry collections, many of which have sold internationally.

Her novel The Conductor (2011) was the highest-selling adult fiction title in New Zealand in 2011, staying at number one for 20 weeks.

[1] In 2015, she won the MPA Columnist of the Year for her Next magazine column The Divorce Diaries, and was runner-up for the award in 2016 and 2019.

[6] In 2003 she was awarded the Robert Burns Fellowship (alongside Nick Ascroft), a literary residency at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.