Jennifer Mills

Jennifer Mills (born 1977) is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet. She is the author of the novels 'The Diamond Anchor' (2009) and 'Gone' (2011), and a collection of short stories, 'The Rest is Weight' (2012), published by University of Queensland Press, and a chapbook of poems, Treading Earth.

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, Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories 2007, and New Australian Stories 2.[2] She has also been a regular contributor to Newmatilda.com.[3]

In 2012, Mills was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists.[4]

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  1. ↑ "A sense of place". Retrieved 27 December 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/author_details.php?id=2435
  3. ↑ http://newmatilda.com/contributor/20047
  4. ↑ "Sydney Writers' Festival: Melanie Joosten, Rohan Wilson, Jennifer Mills". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 27 December 2014.

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