Jen Banyard

Name Jen Banyard
Email Address jenbanyard@gmail.com
Profession Author
Professional Services
  • Public readings
  • Talks
  • Workshop presentation
Areas of Work
  • Children's
  • Fiction
  • Humour
  • Poetry
  • Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Country Australia
State WA
Suburb Floreat
Biography Jen loves the fun in writing for younger audiences. She came to children’s literature from a background in science writing and editing, breaking through in 2008 with a short story in the Touchdown children’s magazine, one of the long-running NSW School Magazine quartet. This was closely followed by publication of her comedy/spec-fic novel, Spider Lies, by Fremantle Press in 2009 and another story in the School Magazine. She recently completed a second young readers’ adventure novel, sneaking time away from her adult fiction project towards a PhD, and will have a spec-fic children’s story anthologised in late 2010. Jen was born in Perth, Western Australia and, with her family, lives there still, happily within sniffing distance of the Indian Ocean.