About the Author

Jennifer Compton is an award-winning poet, playwright and fiction writer who was brought up in Wellington, emigrated to Australia in the 1970s and lives now in Melbourne. Jennifer has published poetry collections in both countries, winning Australia's Newcastle and Robert Harris poetry prizes, and New Zealand's Kathleen Grattan Award for poetry and Katherine Mansfield Award for short fiction. She has also been awarded a number of international writer residencies. Kathleen Grattan judge, Vincent O'Sullivan says Jennifer's collection This City 'sustains a questing, warmly sceptical mind's engagement with wherever it is, whatever it takes in, and carries the constant drive to say it right'.