Jennifer Mills


Biography

Jennifer Mills is the author of the novels Gone (UQP, 2011) and The Diamond Anchor (UQP, 2009) and a chapbook of poems, Treading Earth (Press Press, 2009). 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, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories, and she is a regular contributor to New Matilda and Overland. She lives in South Australia.

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Books

Strike Anywhere/La Fosforera    by Jennifer Mills
You set the price! 2110 words. Published on June 16, 2011. Fiction.

Originally made as a limited edition run of 52 matchbox zines, this bilingual collection of poems in Spanish and English was written after travels in North and Central America in 2008. From the volcanic mountains of Guatemala to the streets of old Havana, the monstrous belly of Mexico City to the markets of Chiapas, it is a compact collection with a powerful fire at its heart.
Treading Earth    by Jennifer Mills
You set the price! 3900 words. Published on February 6, 2011. Fiction.

This is Jennifer Mills' first book of poetry. Its strength and muscularity mark it as a book which will be remembered - not only because they are remarkable in a first book, but because they so easily deliver the original vision and clarity of the poet.

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