Jennifer Mills

Writing

Mills' fifth novel, Salvage, was published in 2025. The Guardian described it as a "beautifully structured novel, complex but never messy". Australian Book Review described it as a masterful example of dystopian fiction.

Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Island Magazine, Overland, HEAT, the Griffith Review, and The Lifted Brow, as well as anthologies such as Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories.

Mills has written zines and comics under the name of "jenjen".

Other roles

Mills has served as the fiction editor at Overland and a board firector for the Australian Society of Authors.

In 2025, she became chair of the Australian Society of Authors.

Mills was scheduled to appear at 2026 Adelaide Writers' Week, which was cancelled after a boycott by most authors, following the rescindment of Randa Abdel-Fattah's invitation to the event by the Adelaide Festival Board. She is one of the organisers of a one-off festival called Constellations, under the auspices of Writers SA and independent publishers Pink Shorts.

Novels

• The Diamond Anchor (University of Queensland Press, 2009)
• Gone (University of Queensland Press, 2011)
• Dyschronia (Picador Australia, 2018)
• The Airways (Picador Australia, 2021)
• Salvage (Picador, 2025)

Short fiction

Collections

• The Rest is Weight (University of Queensland Press, 2012, ISBN 9780702249402)

Individual stories

• "Extra time", Overland, Volume 194, Autumn 2009

Poetry

Chapbooks

• Treading Earth (Press Press, 2009)

Selected non-fiction

• "Spanners and mirages", pp. 107–118, in: Destroying the joint, edited by Jane Caro, Read How You Want (2015, ISBN 9781459687295).
• "A distant leviathan : Robbie Arnott's realist new novel", Australian Book Review, volume 447, 2022