Jenny Sinclair

Jenny Sinclair is a Melbourne-based journalist. Formerly a technology reporter for The Age newspaper, she now writes across a range of fields including public policy, the arts and social issues. Her work has appeared in The Age, the Australian, Meanjin, Griffith Review, Island, on ABC radio and in numerous magazines and anthologies. She is the author of two non-fiction books (the historical biography A Walking Shadow and the city-biography Much Ado About Melbourne) and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Melbourne’s department of culture and communication. She was the winner of the 2019 Nature Conservancy Nature Writing essay prize. She has taught creative writing at Melbourne University and worked as an advisor to public creative arts programs.