Jen Jewel Brown
- Age: 57
- Gender: Female
- Astrological Sign: Aquarius
- Zodiac Year: Dragon
- Industry: Arts
- Occupation: writer/artist
- Location: Melbourne : Victoria : Australia
About Me
Jen’s essay Sex Crimes in Suburbia was included in Meanjin's ‘Law and Crime - the Long Arm’ issue (October 2007). A widely-published, versatile professional writer, she wrote Skyhooks Million Dollar Riff, poetry books Marsupial Wrestling, Alleycat and gutter Vs stars (Flat Chat 2006).
Interests
- Winner of the Greater Dandenong Writing Awards Open Poetry Prize 2006
- Spinning Room (Melbourne) best female performer of 2005
- Victorian Writers' Centre Poetry Cup best performer 2004
- she co-edited Shelton Lea's 'Nebucadnezzar' with Gig Ryan. Her work has been anthologised in Moving Galleries (on Melbourne trains)
- Divan
- Mother I'm Rooted
- Salt-Lick
- Meanjin
- Cordite
- Stylus
- Going Down Swinging and printed in The Age. Currently working on a bastardised memoir and other secret projects. She's freelanced as a journalist since 1971
- on staff at Planet
- Digger
- Rolling Stone
- Nation Review
- RAM and Mediaweek. Oh yeah
- and she did A&R at Mushroom Records & Publishing amongst other music biz stuff.. In previous lifetimes known as Jenny Brown
- Jenny Hunter Brown
- Quito Ray and Emily Teechen. Yada yada yada ... Interests enclave Xenosexuality
- black & white relations
- guinea pigs
- avoiding global meltdown
- chaos theory
- chocolate
- leaping through flaming hoops
- treading lightly on the earth
- Marvel. In art: cunning simplicity
Favorite Movies
- Gran Torino
- A History of Violence
- Love & Other Catastrophes
- Taxi Driver
- Crash (from the JB Ballard book) Performance
- The Fly (new and old)
- Destroy All Monsters
Favorite Music
- Cannot Buy My Soul (Kev Carmody plus tribute versions)
- Performance
- Paris Texas
- Frank Zappa instrumentals
- John Lee Hooker
- Ladytron
- The Church
- Snakefinger
- the Art Bears
- London Electricity Ian Rilen & the Love Addicts
- X (Oz version)
Favorite Books
- The Wasteland
- Salt-lick V
- The Strange Case of the Dog In the Night
- anything by J. D. Salinger
- Roget's Thesaurus
- Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
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