Jessica Wilkinson

Jessica is a Professor in Creative Writing in the School of Media and Communication.

Jessica is a writer, critic, scholar and editor whose research interests include: poetry and poetics; contemporary poetry; poetic biography; 'nonfiction poetry'; experimental/radical writing; literary theory. She is the founding and Managing Editor of 'Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry' (2011-present) and of the Rabbit Poets Series. In her own poetry and with Rabbit, Jessica is interested in pushing boundaries of form, and in exploring what poetry can do in collision with nonfiction writing. She is also passionate about giving opportunities to new Australian writers, and in the transnational potential of literary publishing. Jessica holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Melbourne.

Jessica's poems have appeared in books, newspapers, and international anthologies and journals. She is the author of three books of poetry: 'marionette: a biography of miss marion davies' (Vagabond, 2012), 'Suite for Percy Grainger' (Vagabond, 2014) and 'Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine' (Vagabond, 2019). In 2017, she received an RMIT Research Award recognising the impact she has made to the field of 'nonfiction poetry'. She was a Creative Australia 2023 Keesing Studio (Paris) Fellow.