Jennifer Harrison (poet)

Jennifer Harrison (born 1955) is a contemporary Australian psychiatrist, poet and photographer.

Born in Liverpool, Sydney Jennifer Harrison studied medicine and then specialised in psychiatry. Since her first volume of poetry, Michelangelo's Prisoners in 1994, she has published several more, winning the 1995 Anne Elder Award and being short-listed for the 2000 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry. Her photography has been exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Having lived in the United States and New Zealand, Harrison currently resides in Melbourne and is employed as a child psychiatrist.

Publications
Poetry
 * Michelangelo's Prisoners. (Black Pepper publishing, 1994) ISBN 9781875606207
 * Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems. (Black Pepper publishing, 1995) ISBN 9780646240473
 * Cabramatta/Cudmirrah. (Black Pepper publishing, 1996) ISBN 9781876044114
 * Dear B. (Black Pepper publishing, 1998) ISBN 9781876044275
 * Folly & Grief. (Black Pepper publishing, 2006) ISBN 1-876044-45-4 REVIEW REVIEW
 * Colombine, New & Selected Poems. (Black Pepper publishing, 2010) ISBN 9781876044657''

Edited

 * With Phil Ilton, Said the Rat!. (Black Pepper publishing, 2003) ISBN 1876044446
 * With Kate Waterhouse, Motherlode; Australian Women's Poetry 1986-2008. (Puncher & Wattmann, 2009) ISBN 97819214501617