Jennifer Mills (born 1977) is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet.

Career

Mills lived in Alice Springs. She was the winner of the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the 2008-9

Commonwealth Short Story Competition Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...

, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. She was shortlisted for the 2009

Manchester Fiction Prize The Manchester Fiction Prize is a literary award celebrating excellence in creative writing. It was launched by Carol Ann Duffy and The Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2009, as the second phase of the annual Man ...

. Her work has appeared in

Meanjin ''Meanjin'' (), formerly ''Meanjin Papers'' and ''Meanjin Quarterly'', is an Australian literary magazine. The name is derived from the Turrbal word for the spike of land where the city of Brisbane is located. It was founded in 1940 in Brisbane ...

, Island magazine, Overland, Heat, the

Griffith Review ''Griffith Review'' is a quarterly publication featuring essays, reportage, memoir, fiction, poetry and artwork from established and emerging writers and artists. Each edition focuses on a contemporary theme, enabling pertinent issues to be aired ...

The Lifted Brow The Lifted Brow is both the name of an Australian not-for-profit literary organisation (also less well known as the TLB Society Inc.), and the quarterly print literary magazine/journal it publishes. It also publishes its books through its Brow B ...

, Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories. In 2012, Mills was named one of the

Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper i ...

's Best Young Australian Novelists. Her essay, ''Swimming with Aliens'', was shortlisted for the 2017

Horne Prize The Horne Prize is an Australian award established by Aēsop and ''The Saturday Paper'' in 2016 for a literary essay of up to 3000 words on Australian life. The prize is valued at $15,000 (Australian) and named in honour of Donald Horne (1921– ...

. She is the fiction editor at Overland and a Board Director for the

Australian Society of Authors The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) was formed in 1963 as the organisation to promote and protect the rights of Australia's authors and illustrators. The Fellowship of Australian Writers played a key role it its establishment. The organisati ...

. Her 2018 novel, ''Dyschronia'', was shortlisted for the 2019

Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

and the 2019

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature The Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature comprise a group of biennially-granted literary awards established in 1986 by the Government of South Australia, announced during Adelaide Writers' Week, as part of the Adelaide Festival. The awards i ...

– Fiction.

Works

Novels

* ''The Diamond Anchor'' (University of Queensland Press, 2009) * ''Gone'' (University of Queensland Press, 2011) * ''Dyschronia'' ( Picador Australi), 2018) *''The Airways'' (Picador Australia, 2021)

Short Story Collections

* ''The Rest is Weight'' (

University of Queensland Press Established in 1948, University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house. Founded as a traditional university press, UQP has since branched into publishing books for general readers in the areas of fiction, non-fiction, poetr ...

, 2012)

Poetry

* ''Treading Earth'',

chapbook A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered bookle ...

(Press Press, 2009)

Contributed chapter

* "Spanners and mirages", pp. 107–118, in: ''Destroying the joint'', edited by

Jane Caro Catherine Jane Caro (born 24 June 1957) is a feminist social commentator, writer and lecturer based in Australia. Early life and education Caro was born in London in 1957 and emigrated to Australia with her parents as a five-year-old in 1963 ...

, Read How You Want (2015, ).

References

External links

Official website of Jennifer Mills

UQP Author page

Picador Author page
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