Jennifer Compton lives in Melbourne and is a poet and playwright who also writes prose. Her book of poetry, Barefoot, published by Picaro Press in 2010, was shortlisted for the John Bray Award at the Adelaide Festival last year. This City won the Kathleen Grattan Award in New Zealand and was published by Otago University Press in 2011. Ungainly has just come out with Mulla Mulla Press.