Jennifer Harrison

Who is Jennifer Harrison?

Jennifer Harrison is a contemporary Australian poet.

Born in Liverpool, Sydney Jennifer Harrison studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry. Since her first volume of poetry, Michelangelo's Prisoners in 1994, she has published several more, winning the 1995 Anne Elder Award and being short-listed for the 2000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. In 2011 she won the Christopher Brennan Award for lifetime achievement in poetry. Her photography has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Having lived in the United States and New Zealand, Harrison currently resides in Melbourne and is employed as a child psychiatrist. She is also a photographer. She is currently The Dax Poetry Collection Manager for the Dax Centre at the University of Melbourne.