Jennifer Mills

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Jennifer Mills
Born1977 (age 48–49)
OccupationNovelist

Jennifer Mills (born 1977) is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet. [1]

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Career

Mills lived in Alice Springs. [2] 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. [3]

In 2012, Mills was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald 's Best Young Australian Novelists. [4] Her essay, Swimming with Aliens, was shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize. [5]

Her 2018 novel, Dyschronia, was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award [6] and the 2019 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Fiction. [7]

Her fifth novel, Salvage, was published in 2025. The Guardian described it as a "beautifully structured novel, complex but never messy". [8] Australian Book Review described it as a masterful example of dystopian fiction. [9]

Mills has served as the fiction editor at Overland [10] and a Board Director for the Australian Society of Authors. [11] In 2025, she became Chair of the Australian Society of Authors. [12]

Bibliography

Novels

Short fiction

Collections
Individual stories

Poetry

Chapbooks

Selected non-fiction

References

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  1. ↑ "Austlit — Jennifer Mills". Austlit. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  2. ↑ "A sense of place". 26 April 2009. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "UQP - Jennifer Mills". www.uqp.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  4. ↑ "Sydney Writers' Festival: Melanie Joosten, Rohan Wilson, Jennifer Mills". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 May 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  5. ↑ "The Horne Prize - News". The Horne Prize. Archived from the original on 10 March 2020. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  6. ↑ Boland, Michaela (2 July 2019). "'Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin". ABC News. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  7. ↑ "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature". State Library of South Australia. December 2019. Archived from the original on 18 May 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2020.
  8. ↑ Menzies-Pike, Catriona (12 June 2025). "Salvage by Jennifer Mills review – urgent post-apocalyptic novel proposes a better way of living". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  9. ↑ Ricketson, Jonathan (June 2025). "Fictions of resistance". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  10. ↑ Mills, Jennifer (17 May 2019). "The other side of climate grief is climate fury". Overland literary journal. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  11. ↑ "Our Board - Australian Society of Authors (ASA)".
  12. ↑ "ASA welcomes new Chair, Jennifer Mills". Australian Society of Authors. 12 November 2025. Retrieved 10 January 2026.
  13. ↑ "The Diamond Anchor by Jennifer Mills". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  14. ↑ "Gone by Jennifer Mills". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  15. ↑ "Dyschronia by Jennifer Mills". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  16. ↑ "The Airways by Jennifer Mills". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
  17. ↑ "Salvage by Jennifer Mills". Austlit. Retrieved 19 March 2025.
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