Jennifer Maiden, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jennifer Maiden

contemporary Australian poet and educator

Date of Birth: 07-Apr-1949

Place of Birth: Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: writer, poet

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jennifer Maiden (born 7 April 1949) is an Australian poet.
She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 31 books published: 24 poetry collections, 6 novels and 1 nonfiction work.
She began writing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then.
She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s.
She has one daughter, Katharine Margot Toohey.
Aside from writing, Jennifer Maiden runs writers workshops with a variety of literary, community and educational organizations and has devised and co-written (with Margaret Cunningham Bennett, who was then the director of the New South Wales Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service) a manual of questions to facilitate writing by Torture and Trauma Victims.
Later, Maiden and Bennett used the questions they had created as a basis for a clinically planned workbook.