Jessica Wilkinson

Jessica L. Wilkinson is the founding editor of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry. She has published two poetic biographies: ‘marionette: a biography of miss marion davies’ (Vagabond, 2012) and ‘Suite for Percy Grainger’ (Vagabond, 2014). In 2014 she received a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship to research her third poetic biography, ‘Music Made Visible: a biography of George Balanchine.’ She won the 2014 Peter Porter Poetry Prize and is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne. She recently co-edited ‘Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry’ with Bonny Cassidy (Hunter Publishers, 2016).