Lynn Jenner
{{short description|New Zealand poet and essayist}}
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| alma_mater = Victoria University in Wellington
| genre = Poetry, essays
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Lynn Jenner is a poet and essayist from New Zealand.
Background
Jenner was born in Hāwera, Taranaki.{{Cite web|url=http://www.press.auckland.ac.nz/en/browse-books/authors-a-z/lynn-jenner.html|title=Lynn Jenner|website=The University of Auckland|access-date=25 November 2017}} She worked as an educational psychologist and counsellor until 2003. She began studying writing at Whitireia Polytechnic and completed an MA in creative writing at Victoria University of Wellington.{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/bestnzpoems/BNZP10/t1-g1-t15-body-d1.html|title=Best New Zealand Poems 2010|date=2010|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=25 November 2017}} She received her PhD in 2013 from the International Institute of Modern Letters at the Victoria University of Wellington.{{Cite web|url=https://www.victoria.ac.nz/modernletters/our-students/phd-graduates/lynn-jenner|title=Lynn Jenner|website=International Institute of Modern Letters Victoria University of Wellington|language=en|access-date=25 November 2017}}{{Cite news|url=http://www.anzliterature.com/member/lynn-jenner/|title=Lynn Jenner|work=Academy of New Zealand Literature|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-US}} Her advisor was Bill Manhire.{{Cite thesis |title=Everyday Life in the Ancient World: Four Re-Collections |url=https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Everyday_Life_in_the_Ancient_World_Four_Re-Collections/17009762/1 |publisher=Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington |date=2013-01-01 |degree=Doctoral |language=en |first=Lynn |last=Jenner}}
Jenner currently lives on the Kāpiti Coast.
Works
Jenner published her first collection of poetry, Dear Sweet Harry, in 2010. Her second book, Lost and Gone Away, was published in 2015 and is partly a memoir, including essays, and poetry. A third book titled "PEAT" was published by Otago University Press in July 2019. This book weaves Jenner's reactions to the building of the Kapiti Expressway near her home together with her relationship with the late poet, editor, and philanthropist Charles Brasch.
Poems by Jenner have been included in the Best New Zealand Poems series in 2008,{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/bestnzpoems/BNZP08/t1-g1-t12-body1-d1.html|title=Best New Zealand Poems 2008|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=25 November 2017}} 2009,{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/bestnzpoems/BNZP09/t1-g1-t9-body1-d1.html|title=Best New Zealand Poems 2009|website=nzetc.victoria.ac.nz|access-date=25 November 2017}} and 2010. She has also published in several literary journals including Turbine{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/turbine/Turbi10/poetry/t1-g1-g1-t14-g1-t1-body-d1.html|title=The Russian Point of View|last=Jenner|first=Lynn|date=2010|website=Turbine|access-date=25 November 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/turbine/Turbi09/poetry/t1-g1-g1-t14-g1-t1-body1-d1.html|title=Six Jews Share Their Impressions of Oswiecim|last=Jenner|first=Lynn|date=2009|website=Turbine|access-date=25 November 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/turbine/Turbi08/poetry/t1-g1-g1-t18-g1-t1-body1-d1.html|title=The Day Before the Battle of the Somme|last=Jenner|first=Lynn|date=2008|website=Turbine|access-date=25 November 2017}} and 4th Floor.{{Cite web|url=http://4thfloorjournal.co.nz/archive/08/contributors08.html|title=Contributors 2008|date=2008|website=4th Floor Literary Journal|access-date=25 November 2017}}{{Cite web|url=http://4thfloorjournal.co.nz/archive/09/contributors.html|title=Contributors 2009|date=2009|website=4th Floor Literary Journal|access-date=25 November 2017}}{{Cite news|url=http://4thfloorjournal.co.nz/past-issues/4th-floor-2010/contributors-2010/#Jenner|title=Contributors 2010|date=2010|work=4th Floor Literary Journal|access-date=25 November 2017|language=en-US}} Jenner was also published in the anthology Oxford Poets 2013.{{Cite book|url=http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781906188108|title=Oxford Poets 2013|last=Galbraith|first=Iain|last2=Marsack|first2=Robyn|publisher=Carcanet Poetry|year=2013|isbn=9781906188108}}
Awards
Jenner's MA thesis won the 2008 Adam Foundation Prize for Creative Writing.
In 2011, Dear Sweet Harry won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Award for Best First Book of Poetry at the New Zealand Post Book Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/past-winners-by-author?letter=J|title=Past Winners by Author|website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust|access-date=25 November 2017}}
Lost and Gone Away was named a Metro Best Books in 2015{{Cite web|url=http://www.noted.co.nz/culture/books/metros-books-of-the-year-2015/|title=Metro's Books of the Year 2015|date=2015|website=Metro|language=en|access-date=25 November 2017}} and a finalist in the general non-fiction category of the 2016 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nzbookawards.nz/new-zealand-book-awards/previous-longlist/|title=Previous Longlist 2016|website=New Zealand Book Awards Trust|access-date=25 November 2017}}
References
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External links
- [http://pinklight.nz Official website]
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Category:International Institute of Modern Letters alumni
Category:New Zealand fiction writers
Category:New Zealand women poets