Jennnifer Maiden, photo by Katharine Margot Toohey
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Jennifer Maiden was born in Penrith, New South Wales, Australia on the 7th of April 1949. Thirteen of her poetry collections (one including short stories) and two of her novels have been published. She has won the New South Wales’ Premier’s Prize twice, the Victorian Premier’s Prize, the Christopher Brennan Award for a lifetime of achievement in poetry, and many other awards. She has been Writer in Residence at the Australian National University in Canberra, the University of Western Sydney , Springwood High School and the New South Wales Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service. Her novel Play With Knives has been translated and published by dtv in Germany. Her next collection, Friendly Fire, is forthcoming from Giramondo Press in 2005.
Material available on this site:
Jennifer Maiden: Four early poems, 1970
Jennifer Maiden: Three poems: Tactics / The Problem of Evil (Part four) / Madeleine Albright Wears Two Lapel Pins [4 pages]
Jennifer Maiden in conversation with Catherine Kenneally, December 2004 [10 pages]
Martin Duwell: Two essays on Jennifer Maiden [15 pages]
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