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Jenny Blackford
Jenny smiles at the camera in front of a bookshelf.

Award-winning poet and author Jenny Blackford lives in Newcastle, Australia, with her philosopher husband and her feline mews. She’s still astonished that she won the Long Poem category in the Science Fiction and Fantasy Association Rhysling Awards in 2021. Her poems and stories have appeared in Asimov's, Cosmos, Westerly and many more Australian and international literary journals and anthologies. Her third collection from Pitt Street Poetry, The Alpaca Cantos, was published in 2020. Her spidery, ghostly middle-grade adventure The Girl in the Mirror won the Davitt Award for Best Children's Crime Novel.