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Jennifer Mills

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

Career

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Mills lived in Alice Springs.[1] 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. She was shortlisted for the 2009 Manchester Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Island Magazine, Overland, HEAT, the Griffith Review, and The Lifted Brow, as well as anthologies such as Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories.[2]

In 2012, Mills was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists.[3] Her essay, Swimming with Aliens, was shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize.[4]

She is the fiction editor at Overland[5] and a Board Director for the Australian Society of Authors.[6]

Her 2018 novel, Dyschronia, was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award[7] and the 2019 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Fiction.[8]

Bibliography

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Novels

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Collections

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Poetry

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  • Treading Earth, chapbook (Press Press, 2009)

Selected non-fiction

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  • "Spanners and Mirages", pp. 107–118, in: Destroying the Joint, edited by Jane Caro (2015, ISBN 9781459687295).

Selected book reviews

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Year Review article Work(s) reviewed
2022 Mills, Jennifer (October 2022). "A distant leviathan : Robbie Arnott's realist new novel". Australian Book Review. 447: 38. Arnott, Robbie (2022). Limberlost. Text Publishing.

References

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As of 23 January 2011, this article is derived in whole or in part from jenjen.com.au. The copyright holder has licensed the content in a manner that permits reuse under CC BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL. All relevant terms must be followed. The original text was at "about jennifer mills"

  1. ^ "A sense of place". 26 April 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. ^ "UQP - Jennifer Mills". www.uqp.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Sydney Writers' Festival: Melanie Joosten, Rohan Wilson, Jennifer Mills". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  4. ^ "The Horne Prize - News". The Horne Prize. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  5. ^ Mills, Jennifer (17 May 2019). "The other side of climate grief is climate fury". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Our Board - Australian Society of Authors (ASA)".
  7. ^ Boland, Michaela (2 July 2019). "'Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin". ABC News. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  8. ^ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. December 2019. Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  9. ^ Mills, Jennifer (30 March 2009). The Diamond Anchor. ISBN 978-0-7022-3695-2.
  10. ^ Mills, Jennifer (28 February 2011). Gone. ISBN 978-0-7022-3871-0.
  11. ^ "Dyschronia - Pan Macmillan AU". Pan Macmillan Australia. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  12. ^ "The Airways - Pan Macmillan AU". Pan Macmillan Australia. Retrieved 23 February 2022.
  13. ^ Mills, Jennifer (2 July 2012). The Rest is Weight. ISBN 978-0-7022-4940-2.
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