Kate Jennings

Kate Jennings was born in New South Wales. She was active in leftist and feminist politics of the sixties, going on to become a poet, critic, and essayist.

She compiled a collection of women’s poetry Mother I’m Rooted (1975). Since 1979 she has made her home in New York City since 1979. Her writing (mainly prose memoir and essays) includes Come to Me My Melancholy Baby (poetry, 1975), Save Me, Joe Louis (1988), Women Falling Down in the Street (1990), Bad Manners (1993), Cats, Dogs & Pitchforks (poetry 1993), and the novels Snake (1996) and Moral Hazard (2002). She was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal in 1998, and in 2003 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for Moral Hazard, which was also awarded the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.

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