Jennifer Maiden
| Jennifer Maiden | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 April 1949 Penrith, New South Wales |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Education | BA |
| Alma mater | Macquarie University |
| Notable awards |
ALS Gold Medal, 2015. Victorian Prize for Literature, 2014. The FAW Christopher Brennan Award. Three Kenneth Slessor Prizes for Poetry. Two C. J. Dennis Prizes for Poetry. The Melbourne Age Book of the Year. Two The Melbourne Age Poetry Book of the Year awards. The Harri Jones Memorial Prize. The H.M. Butterly-F.Earle Hooper Award(University of Sydney). The Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival Prize. Shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. |
| Years active | 1966- |
ALS Gold Medal, 2015. Victorian Prize for Literature, 2014. The FAW Christopher Brennan Award. Three Kenneth Slessor Prizes for Poetry. Two C. J. Dennis Prizes for Poetry. The Melbourne Age Book of the Year. Two The Melbourne Age Poetry Book of the Year awards. The Harri Jones Memorial Prize. The H.M. Butterly-F.Earle Hooper Award(University of Sydney). The Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival Prize.
Jennifer Maiden (born 7 April 1949) is an Australian poet. She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 25 books published: 21 poetry collections and 4 novels. She began writing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s. She has one daughter, Katharine Margot Toohey. Aside from writing, Jennifer Maiden runs writers workshops with a variety of literary, community and educational organizations and has co-written (with Margaret Cunningham Bennett, who was then the director of the New South Wales Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service) a manual of questions to facilitate writing by Torture and Trauma Victims.
Among Jennifer Maiden's many awards are three Kenneth Slessor Prizes for Poetry, two C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry,the overall Victorian Prize for Literature, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the H.M. Butterly-F.Earle Hooper Award(University of Sydney), the Grenfell Henry Lawson Festival Prize, the FAW Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry, two The Melbourne Age Poetry Book of the Year awards, the overall Melbourne Age Book of the Year and the ALS Gold Medal. She has had residencies at the Australian National University, the University of Western Sydney, Springwood High School and the New South Wales Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service. She has been awarded several Fellowships by the Australia Council.
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