Jill Jones won the Mary Gilmore Award for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star (Hazard Press). Her fourth book, Screens, Jets, Heaven: New and Selected Poems won the 2003 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize. Her work has been widely published in Australia as well as in New Zealand, Canada, the USA, Britain, France, the Czech Republic and India. She currently teaches at the University of Adelaide.