Jessica writes in the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir. Her first novel, A Curious Intimacy (Penguin/Viking 2007) won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award, shortlistings for the Western Australia Premier's award and the Dobbie award for a first published work by an Australian woman writer, and was longlisted for the international Dublin Literary Award award. Her second novel, Entitlement, was published by Penguin/Viking in 2012. Jessica's most recent work, Hearing Maud (UWA Publishing 2019), is a hybrid memoir about deafness. It won the 2020 Michael Crouch award for debut biography, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the National Biography Award, and the People's Choice Award and... Read more
About me
Jessica writes in the genres of fiction, creative nonfiction, and memoir. Her first novel, A Curious Intimacy (Penguin/Viking 2007) won a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist award, shortlistings for the Western Australia Premier's award and the Dobbie award for a first published work by an Australian woman writer, and was longlisted for the international Dublin Literary Award award. Her second novel, Entitlement, was published by Penguin/Viking in 2012. Jessica's most recent work, Hearing Maud (UWA Publishing 2019), is a hybrid memoir about deafness. It won the 2020 Michael Crouch award for debut biography, and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, the National Biography Award, and the People's Choice Award and Premier's Award for a Work of State Significance in the Queensland Literary Awards. Jessica's short fiction, essays and poetry have won awards and shortlistings and appeared in national and international literary journals. Jessica is also the recipient of funding and residencies from Arts Queensland, the Australia Council for the Arts, the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society and the IASH Environmental Humanities group at the University of Edinburgh.
Jessica's critical writing has been published in national and international journals in the fields of Australian literature, ecocriticism, nineteenth century literature, life writing and literary representations of disability. From 2016-2019 she was an Australia Research Council DECRA fellow at The University of Queensland, during which time she oversaw the creation of the Writing Disability in Australia dataset in the AustLit database to draw attention to representations of disability in Australian literature. Jessica is currently working on two books: an ecobiography about Western Australia botanist Georgiana Molloy (1805-1843) and the plants that transformed her life, and a scholarly monograph on the genre of ecobiography.
Jessica is keen to supervise in the fields of either creative or critical writing, particularly Australian literature, ecocriticism, climate fiction, literature and disability, fiction, memoir and creative non-fiction.
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of London
Master of Arts in Writing University of Technology, Sydney
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) University of Wollongong
Research
Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
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2010 |
White, J 2010, 'Body language', M/C Journal, vol. 13, no. 3.
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External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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University of Queensland | AUSTRALIA |
External engagement & recognition
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MemberAssociation for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter) |
2021 |
MemberInternational Association for the Study of Australia |
2021 |
Newsletter EditorAssociation for the Study of Environment, Literature and Culture |
2021 |
Peer ReviewerDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council |
2021 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2020 |
MemberAssociation for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter) |
2020 |
MemberInternational Association for the Study of Australia |
2020 |
Michael Crouch Award for Debut Work of BiographyState Library, New South Wales |
2020 |
Newsletter EditorAssociation for the Study of Environment, Literature and Culture |
2020 |
Peer ReviewerDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council |
2020 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2019 |
Keynote LecturePoetry and Perception in the Anthropocene, University of New England |
2019 |
MemberAssociation for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter) |
2019 |
MemberInternational Association for the Study of Australia |
2019 |
Newsletter EditorAssociation for the Study of Environment, Literature and Culture |
2019 |
Peer ReviewerDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council |
2019 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2018 |
MemberAssociation for the study of Literature, Environment and Culture (Aust & NZ Chapter) |
2018 |
MemberInternational Association for the Study of Australia |
2018 |
Peer ReviewerDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council |
2018 |
MemberInternational Association for the Study of Australia |
2017 |
Peer ReviewerDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council |
2017 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2016 |
Invited LectureA Symposium on Australian Women Writers, State Library NSW |
2016 |
MemberInternational Association for the Study of Australia |
2016 |
Peer ReviewerDiscovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), Australian Research Council |
2016 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2015 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2014 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2013 |
Invited LectureAustralian and New Zealand Conference for the Education of the Deaf, Brisbane |
2013 |
Contributing EditorAustralian Women Writers Challenge |
2012 |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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Australian Literary Magazines in the 21st Century | Current |
'Coming Out' with your family: portraying LGBTQIA+ ethnic identities in young adult literature | Current |
Exploring narratives of climate change: Writing through the Anthropocene | Current |
The Sir Terry Pratchett Memorial Scholarship | Current |
Understanding the individual in a fractured postmodern society through examination of micronations | Current |
Unmasking the provocatrix: engaging the clandestine literacies of L'écriture Kinesthésique to neuroqueer creative writing research | Current |
Who are the Anthropos? The Philosophical Novel as a Response to Challenges of the Anthropocene | Current |