Jennifer Mills

This article is about the Australian writer. For the American writer, see Jennifer Mills News.

Jennifer Mills (born 1977) is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet.^[1]

Jennifer Mills
Born	1977
Occupation	Novelist

Career

Mills lived in Alice Springs.^[2] 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, and The Lifted Brow, as well as anthologies such as Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories.^[3]

In 2012, Mills was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists.^[4] Her essay, Swimming with Aliens, was shortlisted for the 2017 Horne Prize.^[5]

She is the fiction editor at Overland^[6] and a Board Director for the Australian Society of Authors.^[7]

Her 2018 novel, Dyschronia, was shortlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award^[8] and the 2019 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Fiction.^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Diamond Anchor (University of Queensland Press, 2009)^[10]
• Gone (University of Queensland Press, 2011)^[11]
• Dyschronia (Picador Australia, 2018)^[12]
• The Airways (Picador Australia, 2021)^[13]
• Salvage (Picador, 2025)^[14]

Short fiction

Collections

• The Rest is Weight (University of Queensland Press, 2012)^[a]

Stories^[b]

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected	Notes
Extra time	2009	Mills, Jennifer (Autumn 2009). "Extra time". Overland. 194: 52–56.

Poetry

Chapbooks

• Treading Earth (Press Press, 2009)

Selected non-fiction

• "Spanners and mirages", pp. 107–118, in: Destroying the joint, edited by Jane Caro, Read How You Want (2015, ISBN 9781459687295).

Book reviews

Year	Review article	Work(s) reviewed
2022	Mills, Jennifer (October 2022). "A distant leviathan : Robbie Arnott's realist new novel". Australian Book Review. 447: 38.	Arnott, Robbie (2022). Limberlost. Text Publishing.

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Bibliography notes

1. Mills, Jennifer (2 July 2012). The Rest is Weight. ISBN 978-0-7022-4940-2.
2. Short stories unless otherwise noted.