Sharni Wilson
Biography
Sharni Wilson is a writer of fiction and a Japanese-to-English literary translator who was born and raised in Kirikiriroa Hamilton. Her work has appeared in Landfall, the Malahat Review and World Literature Today, among others. She is a three-time graduate of the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School. In 2020 she was a finalist for Lunch Ticket’s Gabo Prize, and in 2023 she won the At the Bay | I te Kokoru award for her hybrid collection, One to Many and other experiments, which has also been shortlisted for the 2026 William Saroyan International Prize in Fiction.
