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| Born | 1977 (age 48–49) |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer, poet |
Jennifer Mills (born 1977), also published as jenjen, is an Australian novelist, short story writer, and poet. She is based in Adelaide, South Australia.
Jennifer Mills was born in 1977. [1]
Mills' fifth novel, Salvage, was published in 2025. The Guardian described it as a "beautifully structured novel, complex but never messy". [2] Australian Book Review described it as a masterful example of dystopian fiction. [3]
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. [1] [4]
Mills has written zines and comics under the name of "jenjen". [1]
Mills has served as the fiction editor at Overland [5] and a board firector for the Australian Society of Authors. [6]
In 2025, she became chair of the Australian Society of Authors. [7]
Mills was scheduled to appear at 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week, which was cancelled after a boycott by most authors, following the rescindment of Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the event by the Adelaide Festival Board. She is one of the organisers of a one-off festival called Constellations, under the auspices of Writers SA and independent publishers Pink Shorts. [8] [9]
Mills 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.[ citation needed ]
Her novel The Diamond Anchor was highly commended for the Dobbie Award, and she has won both the Marian Eldridge Award and the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship. [1]
In 2012, Mills was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald 's Best Young Australian Novelists. [10] Her essay, Swimming with Aliens, was shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize. [11]
Her 2018 novel, Dyschronia, was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award [12] and the 2019 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Fiction. [13]
Mills previously lived in Alice Springs, Northern Territory, [14] before moving to Adelaide, South Australia. [1]
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