Lisa Cherrington

Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Hine

1970 -

Lisa Cherrington was born in Turangi and was raised predominantly in Palmerston North. She was educated at Awatapu College and continued her studies at Massey University where she graduated with a Masters and Diploma in Clinical Psychology. She is employed at Oranga Hinengaro, Specialist Māori Mental Health Team in Palmerston North as a Clinical Psychologist. She has always written through the encouragement of her mother Susan Olsson. She has written a novel, poems and short stories.

Biographical sources

  • Phone interview and correspondence with Lisa Cherrington, August 1992, and Oct. 1997.
  • Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 5: Te Torino: The Spiral. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1996. 26.

    Fiction

  • "A Funeral and a Tangi." Woman-Sight: A Collection of Stories. Ed. and introd. Suzann Olsson. Palmerston North, N.Z.: Nagare, 1989. 34-38. Rpt. in Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 5: Te Torino: The Spiral. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1996. 27-30.
  • "Hineamaru: Woman of the Many." No details.
  • Runner up in the Sunday Star Times Short Story Competition, November 10 2000.
  • The People-Faces. Wellington, N.Z.: Huia, 2004. Extract rpt. in Get On The Waka: Best Recent Māori Fiction. Ed. with and intro. By Witi Ihimaera. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed Book, 2007. 11-14.

  • Other

  • Halliwell, Sue. "Treatise Focuses on Māori Spirituality." Northern Advocate August 2004. No further details.
  • Jamieson, Philippa. "Spirit World Meets Earthy Reality." New Zealand Herald 24 Jul. 2004: sup. 35.

  • Poetry

  • "1990: Beginning at Waitangi." Te Ao Mārama: Contemporary Māori Writing. Comp. and ed. Witi Ihimaera. Contributing ed. Haare Williams, Irihapeti Ramsden and D. S. Long. Vol. 5: Te Torino: The Spiral. Auckland, N.Z.: Reed, 1996. 26-27.
  • The poet encapsulates the deep-rooted tension and lack of understanding between Pakeha and Māori on Treaty issues amidst the setting of the Waitangi Day protests of 1990.

    • Theses

  • "A Comparative Study of the Presenting Symptoms Between Māori and Pakeha Patients Diagnosed with Schizophrenia." Diss. Massey U, 1994.