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Kate Jennings, Sydney Writers’ Festival, 2002.
Kate Jennings (b.1949) was born near Temora, NSW, and was raised near Griffith in the Riverina district. She was active in leftist and feminist politics of the sixties, going on to become a poet, critic, and essayist. She compiled a collection of women’s poetry Mother I’m Rooted (1975). She left Australia in 1979 for life in New York where she worked as an editor and speechwriter for a major investment bank. Her writing (mainly prose memoir and essays) includes Come to Me My Melancholy Baby (poetry, 1975), Save Me, Joe Louis (1988), Women Falling Down in the Street (1990), Bad Manners (1993), Cats, Dogs & Pitchforks (1993), Snake (1996) and Moral Hazard (2002) which was shortlisted for the 2003 Miles Franklin Award.
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