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Jane Williams was born in 1964 in England. Jane's poems have been widely published since the early 1990's in Australian literary journals and newspapers. She was an editor of the Australian poetry journal ars poetica in the mid 1990's. Jane has conducted creative writing workshops in secondary schools, for people with psychiatric disabilities and for the general public. She has held Writers' Residencies at the Varuna Writers' Centre, the Booranga Writers' Centre and within the Victorian Education System. She has been a guest poet at the Melbourne Writers' Festival and the Tasmanian Writers' Festival. Jane has received financial support for editing and writing through Arts Victoria grants. Her first collection of poems outside temple boundaries (Five Islands Press 1998) received the FAW Anne Elder Award. Jane's other awards include the 2005 Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize and the 2005 D.J O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship. She lives in Tasmania with her two daughters where she writes poetry and prose. Jane has a collection of short stories Other Lives due out from Ginninderra Press in 2007. |
