jennifer began her career in the theatre when at ten years old she began writing, producing and directing satires for her primary school assembly. At sixteen she wrote and directed her first full length drama, a bleak Brechtian tragedy produced for the MLC drama festival, and she published her first non-fiction piece, on animals and ethics, in The Age newspaper. She went on to study interior architecture with a major in theatre design, then literature and creative writing at Melbourne University, where she wrote her PhD on the sublime. After moving to Berlin, she spent some years as a professor of literary studies at the Free Universität, completed her higher doctorate in British Romanticism, met her partner and got married.

The child of German and Ukrainian immigrants, jennifer’s work is implicitly concerned with the ways in which language shapes experience. Her writing is most often concerned with the diasporic condition and the negotiation of difference in community. She is the recipient of a Varuna New Writer’s Fellowship, a Felix Meyer Fellowship, and a British Academy Fellowship. She currently lives with her partner in Munich but returns frequently to Melbourne and the Adelaide Hills.