Vincent O'Sullivan (b. 1937) is Director of the Stout Research Centre and Professor of English at Victoria University. A leading New Zealand figure in poetry, fiction and drama, as well as anthologist and critic, his best known works are The Butcher Papers (1982), Palms and Minarets: Selected Stories (1992), Shuriken (1983), Let the River Stand (1993) (winner of the Montana Book Award) and the Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield (ed., with Margaret Scott, 1984 -- ). His novel Believers to the Bright Coast was published in 1998.