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Jennifer Mills

Jennifer Mills is an author, editor and critic based on Kaurna Yerta (Adelaide). Her latest novel is The Airways, published by Picador in 2021. Dyschronia (2018) was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, Aurealis, and Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. In 2022, Mills is Artist in Residence at Vitalstatistix.

Works By Jennifer Mills

Unnatural Being
It’s in my nature to be uncomfortable with the very idea of nature, the distinctions the term creates between acceptable and unacceptable behaviours and desires, the value systems it imposes and disguises. For me, nature and gender are both troubl...
13 Nov. 2022
The Trouble with (non)Violence
I suspect that most decisions about whether to break a luxury shop window, tip over a police car, or sabotage an oil refinery are not made in books, but in the gut.
13 Mar. 2022
The Unconcerned
Events like these used to feel like warnings. Freak tides, catastrophic fires, once-in-a-century storms. We used to describe them as omens of a time to come. Now they are the times we live in.
11 Mar. 2020
Sugarcoated: Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi
Oyeyemi runs her own race as a writer, making a place for herself without apparent regard to convention or literary fashion. But this is not to say she’s not paying attention. The affection for tangents, parentheses and filigrees is a position, a
3 June. 2019
An Embassy for Nowhere
Shaun Prescott’s eminently strange novel, The Town, begins by rejecting outright any ‘sense of place’. The town in this novel is nameless. It is a site that refutes specificity, character, and indeed meaning itself. As a librarian tells its narrat...
7 Nov. 2017
Seventy-Two Transformations
'I’ll never articulate what Journey to the West means but I do feel confident in saying that it’s the best epic Buddhist fantasy novel ever written.'
21 Mar. 2017
Future Real: Cairo by Louis Armand
Cairo is both a futuristic dystopia and an attempt to respond to the dystopian nature of present reality. Although it appears on the surface to be a science fiction novel, it depicts a state of being that Umberto Eco described as hyperreality, in
20 May. 2014
A victimless crime: Cairo by Chris Womersley
‘We live in a philistine nation but a civilised city,’ said the Director of the NGV, Patrick McCaughey, on purchasing Pablo Picasso’s Weeping Woman for $1.6 million in 1986... In Cairo, Chris Womersley has taken the theft of Weeping Woman and re-i...
17 Sept. 2013
Tales of the city: Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man mystery
Somerton Man is one of Adelaide’s great cold cases. The place is built of such true crime stories. On the surface, these narratives tell us, Adelaide is a charmingly ordered, picture-book city. But step carelessly and you could fall through a hole...
9 Apr. 2013

Works Featuring Jennifer Mills

The Body Problem
In Jennifer Mills’ The Airways, we travel through a series of bodies. The we here is us, the readers, but we share this journey with something else too – a ghost, a consciousness, something that speaks and thinks and feels but isn’t necessarily a
14 Nov. 2021