Emma Jones (44 works by)
Born: Established: 1977 Concord ;
Gender: Female
Source for Cardiff award: SMH, 30 December 2005. Work for which award won currently unknown. TW 03/01/2006

BiographyHistory

Emma Jones undertook her secondary education at MLC Burwood in Sydney, New South Wales. After working in England for one year, she returned to Australia and completed an arts degree at the University of Sydney. She graduated with first class honours and the University Medal in English in 2001. The following year she began study towards her PhD at Cambridge University, England. Her PhD thesis examines the ways maternity and motherhood are represented in poetry of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Awards

Awards for Works

The Striped World , 2009 poetry selected work
2010 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — John Bray Award for Poetry
2010 shortlisted ASAL (Association for the Study of Australian Literature) : Mary Gilmore Award for a First Book of Poetry
2010 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
2010 shortlisted Australian Capital Territory Poetry Award — Judith Wright Award for a Published Collection by an Australian Poet
2009 winner Forward Prizes for Poetry — Best First Collection
2009 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Arts Queensland Judith Wright Calanthe Prize for Poetry
2009 shortlisted International Awards — John Llewellyn Rhys Prize
2009 winner FAW Anne Elder Poetry Award
Zoos for the Dead "I have two things: a parrot, and a house by the water...." , The Striped World , Sunweight : The 2005 Newcastle Poetry Prize Anthology , 2005 poetry single work
2005 first The Newcastle Poetry Prize
Fugue, or a Possible Poem , Unfamiliar Tides : The Newcastle Poetry Prize 2001/2002 , 2002 poetry sequence
2001-2002 highly commended The Newcastle Poetry Prize
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