biography
Jennifer Mills is the author of the novel 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 Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, and Best Australian Stories 2007, and she is a regular contributor to New Matilda and Overland. She lives in Alice Springs.
In 2009 i was the recipient of a New Work grant from the Australia Council for the Arts to write my second novel 'The Passenger.' It's about a hitch-hiker.
My weekly horoscope column, Down to Earth Astrology, is published here and at New Matilda every Monday.
Read my artist profile over on RedHotArts.
recent publications/awards
A short story, 'The jungle will swallow anything,' highly commended in the 2009 David Harold Tribe fiction awardAn essay, 'Critical Gratitude,' in the Emerging Writers Festival Reader (republished in full here)
The short story 'Prospect' was shortlisted in the Manchester Fiction Prize
Two short stories, "Plain Indians" and "The Capital of Missing Persons" in Award Winning Australian Writing 2009 (Melbourne Books)
A poem 'body of water' was shortlisted in the Blake Poetry Prize
For a full list of publications, here's my CV (pdf)
