Jay Verney

Jay Verney is an Australian author who has been writing for the last 20 years or so, if you don't count illegible childhood scribblings in her father's pocket notebook with his important Bic biro, and many volumes of terrible teenage poetry. These were despatched to Bad Poetry Hell by the back-yard incinerator during the Great Iambic Conflagration.

Jay writes all sorts of things including essays, short stories, commentary, reviews, poetry, and memoir. She has also published three novels so far: A Mortality Tale, Percussion, and Spawned Secrets. A Mortality Tale, was shortlisted in Australia for the Australian/Vogel and Miles Franklin Literary Awards.

Given the chance, she plans to publish e-versions of her first two novels in 2013, along with

Jay Verney is an Australian author who has been writing for the last 20 years or so, if you don't count illegible childhood scribblings in her father's pocket notebook with his important Bic biro, and many volumes of terrible teenage poetry. These were despatched to Bad Poetry Hell by the back-yard incinerator during the Great Iambic Conflagration.

Jay writes all sorts of things including essays, short stories, commentary, reviews, poetry, and memoir. She has also published three novels so far: A Mortality Tale, Percussion, and Spawned Secrets. A Mortality Tale, was shortlisted in Australia for the Australian/Vogel and Miles Franklin Literary Awards.

Given the chance, she plans to publish e-versions of her first two novels in 2013, along with other novels and shorter projects, provided the household supervisor, Dotty the Boss Cat, aka Yes Ma'am, approves.

If you would like to read some of Jay's grown-up poetry (we hope it's grown-up, but you never can tell), feel free to visit her sites at Veranda Life and Zen Kettle.

Jay also maintains a site called Transient Total Focus where she blogs irregularly about reading, writing, and anything else that takes her fancy. It's sync'd to her Goodreads Author Profile page or you can visit at Transient Total Focus.

Jay's favorite authors include Thea Astley, Anne Tyler, Carol Shields, Annie Proulx, Henning Mankell, Janet Evanovich, Sara Paretsky, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Anne Lamott, and Don DeLillo.