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Kate Jennings (b.1949) was born near Temora, NSW, and was raised near Griffith in the Riverina district. She was active in leftist and feminist politics of the sixties, going on to become a poet, critic, and essayist. She compiled a collection of women’s poetry Mother I’m Rooted (1975).She has made her home in New York City since 1979. Her writing (mainly prose memoir and essays) includes Come to Me My Melancholy Baby (poetry, 1975), Save Me, Joe Louis (1988), Women Falling Down in the Street (1990), Bad Manners (1993), Cats, Dogs & Pitchforks (1993), Snake (1996) and Moral Hazard (2002).