Jenni Nixon is a graduate of the Independent Theatre, Sydney, and worked as an actor for many years. She toured with the Queensland Theatre Company, delivering classic and contemporary plays along with a poetry program.
As a performance poet Jenni has read at a wide range of events in Sydney, Melbourne, Wollongong and the Blue Mountains.
Her poem “visitor at home” won the 2002 Leonard Teale Memorial Prize at the Henry Lawson Festival, Gulgong, NSW.