Jennifer Maiden (born 1949) is an Australian poet. She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 33 books published: 25 poetry collections, 6 novels and 2 nonfiction works. She began writing professionally in the late 1960s and has been active in Sydney's literary scene since then. She took a BA at Macquarie University in the early 1970s. She has one daughter, Katharine Margot Toohey. Aside from writing, Jennifer Maiden runs writers workshops with a variety of literary, community and educational organizations and has devised and co-written (with Margaret Cunningham Bennett, who was then the director of the New South Wales Torture and Trauma Rehabilitation Service) a manual of questions to facilitate writing by Torture and Trauma Victims. Later, Maiden and Bennett used the questions they had created as a basis for a clinically planned workbook.
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7 April 1949 (age 76) Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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Zodiac | Aries |
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