Tim Corballis is a novelist, essayist and art writer based in Wellington. He is the author of five novels through Victoria University Press: Our Future is in the Air (2017), R.H.I. (2015), The Fossil Pits (2005), Measurement (2002), and Below (2001).
He has received a number of major awards and residencies for his writing, including most recently the Victoria University of Wellington Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence (2015). His essay ‘Winter’ won the Landfall Essay Competition in 2013.
Tim has a background in mathematics and philosophy as well as creative writing, has taught at tertiary level in philosophy, sociology and art and design theory, and currently teaches science communication. In 2014 he was awarded a doctorate from The University of Auckland, for work in the theoretical humanities and social sciences focusing on aesthetic theory in Antipodean contexts.
Tim Corballis is a novelist, essayist and art writer based in Wellington. He is the author of five novels through Victoria University Press: Our Future is in the Air (2017), R.H.I. (2015), The Fossil Pits (2005), Measurement (2002), and Below (2001).
He has received a number of major awards and residencies for his writing, including most recently the Victoria University of Wellington Creative New Zealand Writer in Residence (2015). His essay ‘Winter’ won the Landfall Essay Competition in 2013.
Tim has a background in mathematics and philosophy as well as creative writing, has taught at tertiary level in philosophy, sociology and art and design theory, and currently teaches science communication. In 2014 he was awarded a doctorate from The University of Auckland, for work in the theoretical humanities and social sciences focusing on aesthetic theory in Antipodean contexts.
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