Jennifer Mills
Jennifer Mills is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet.Career
Mills lived in Alice Springs. 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, The Lifted Brow, Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories.
In 2012, Mills was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists. Her essay, Swimming with Aliens, was shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize.
She is the fiction editor at Overland.
Her 2018 novel, Dyschronia, was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award and the 2019 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Fiction.Works
Fiction
- The Diamond Anchor, 2009
- Gone, 2011
- The Rest is Weight, short stories collection, University of Queensland Press, 2012
- Dyschronia, Picador Australia, 2018
Poetry
- Treading Earth, chapbook
Contributed chapter
- "Spanners and mirages", pp. 107–118, in: Destroying the joint, edited by Jane Caro, Read How You Want.
