Jena Woodhouse is the author of six book publications in poetry and fiction, and the translator, from the Russian, of a novella published by UQP. Her poetry appears in many literary journals, most recently APJ and Antipodes (USA), as well as in numerous anthologies. Awards and commendations include two short-listings for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (2013, 2015). In 2015 she was awarded Creative Residencies at Camac Centre d’Art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France, and the Australian Institute of Archaeology at Athens, Greece. In May 2016 she was Writer-in-Residence at Booranga Writers’ Centre, Wagga Wagga, NSW.