Jennifer Kemarre Martiniello

Jennifer Kemarre Marniello OAM is an award winning visual artist, poet and writer of Lower Southern Arrernte, Chinese and Anglo-Celtic descent. Founder of the ACT Indigenous Writers Group in 1999, she was awarded the Canberra Critics Circle Award 2000 for Literature and an ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for Literature in 2003. She is a former member of AIATSIS Aboriginal Studies Press Advisory Committee, and judge for the NSW and Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, including the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Literature. Jennifer’s prizes include the Banjo Paterson Poetry Prize and the Henry Lawson Short Story Prize. Her poetry, prose and essays have been published nationally and internationally, including the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature 2009, Shapeshifing (UQP, 2024), Borderless (Recent Work Press, 2021), and Best of Australian Poems (Australian Poetry, 2022). Jennifer lives and works on the unceded lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people, Kamberri/Canberra Australia.