About Jill Jones

Jill Jones’ most recent book is Ash Is Here, So Are Stars (Walleah Press, 2012). In 2012, she also published a chapbook, Senses Working Out (Vagabond Press). She has also published six other full-length poetry books, as well as editing, with Michael Farrell, Out of the Box: Contemporary Australian Gay and Lesbian Poets, in 2009. She won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize 2003 for Screens Jets Heaven: New & Selected Poems and the Mary Gilmore Award 1993 for The Mask and the Jagged Star. She has collaborated with visual and sound artists on a number of text-image projects. Her work has featured in recent anthologies including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. She has been a film reviewer, journalist, book editor and arts administrator. She currently teaches at the University of Adelaide.