ABOUT

hello reader - 
I am a writer, researcher and educator from Melbourne. I hold a PhD in Creative Writing from La Trobe University my research circled life writing, youth culture, and Gen X girlhood.

 
I am the author of 3 1/3 YA novels:  
Notes from the Teenage Underground (winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award,
Everything Beautiful (finalist in the Melbourne Prize for Best Writing),
Girl Defective (finalist in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards); and co-written with Fiona Wood and Cath Crowley, the CBCA-Award-winning Take Three Girls. 

My non-fiction  is regularly featured in the Age Spectrum/SMH, as well as appearing in  literary journals Island, Kill Your Darlings, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. I mostly write about movies, houses, pop culture and 20th century nostalgia - you can read some of it here - and more of it in my substack newsletter.

I have been the grateful recipient of writing grants from Creative Australia, Creative Victoria, Melbourne City of Literature and the Copyright Agency. I was awarded a Varuna fellowship in 2017, and have undertaken writing residencies at The Varda Artists Residency (Sausalito), and the Ionion Centre for the Arts, (Kefalonia).

I teach in the RMIT Professional Writing and Editing Associate Diploma (alum represent!)

Since 2007 I have taught and facilitated creative workshops (writing, collage, zines, mapping) at schools, libraries and writers festivals around the country.

For rights enquries contact: Jill Grinberg Literary