Jennifer Strauss

Jennifer Strauss AM (born 1933) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic.

Jennifer Strauss was born in Heywood, Victoria and educated at various boarding schools and Melbourne University.[1] Working in academia she has published several books of criticism and literary autobiography as well as editing anthologies and several volumes of her own poetry. The current president of the Australian Federation of University Women Strauss is also an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at Monash University.

In 2007 Strauss was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia, for her work in education, her work as an academic in the fields of literature and poetry and for her work in woman's issues and industrial relations.[2]

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Poetry

Non-fiction

Edited

Notes

  1. "Thylazine Australian Artists and Writers Directory - S". Thylazine Foundation. n.d. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
  2. "It's an Honor". Australian Government. Retrieved 2007-07-23.

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