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.