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Sandy Jeffs grew up in Ballarat. She graduated from La Trobe University with an Arts Degree in 1975. When she was 23 she had her first psychotic episode and has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods and difficulties ever since. Her first book, Poems from the Madhouse, published by Spinifex Press in 1993, was awarded 2nd place in the 1993 FAW Anne Elder Poetry Award, as well as a Certificate of Commendation in the 1994 Human Rights Awards. Sandy is a co-author of Loose Kangaroos, Domain Press 1998, which also won a Certificate of Commendation in the 1998 Human Rights Awards. Loose Kangaroos is also the name of a group of sanity-challenged poets with whom she performs her poetry. Sandy's other writing concerns have centred around culture, music and the humorous documentation of the travails of ladies' midweek tennis, the subject of a forthcoming book called Confessions of a Midweek Lady. Spinifex Press are soon to publish a new book of poems by Sandy, based on her experiences of growing up in a family torn apart by alcoholism and domestic violence, Blood Relations. Sandy lives with her friends and animals on the outskirts of Melbourne. |
