Jennifer Severn’s manuscript Long Road to Dry River was shortlisted for the Finch Prize for Memoir in 2018. Her novella manuscript Garnet was short-listed for the Viva la Novella prize in 2022. Now novel-length, Garnet will be published by Vine Leaves Press in early 2026.
Her story ‘Nobody Owns a Fire’, one of eight linked stories that comprise Garnet, was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2024.
She has contributed to Wordgathering, a digital anthology published by Syracuse University, New York State, US, and fourW, an annual anthology of prose and poetry published by the Booranga Centre at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia.
Her work has also featured on the ABC Country Hour program and Edge FM.
Jennifer lives in Quaama, a village on the banks of Dry River in the far south coast hinterland of NSW, with her husband and their terrier-cross. She acknowledges the Yuin peoples, upon whose picturesque, gentle, unceded lands she lives and works.
