Jenny Hedley

Jenny Hedley completed her Creative Writing doctorate at RMIT University and is a sessional teacher at various universities. Her creative writing, critical reviews, poetry and electronic literature have appeared in leading journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, Diagram, Griffith Review, Language and Literature, Overland, Rabbit, Sydney Review of Books, Southerly, TEXT, Westerly Magazine and the anthologies Crip Stories: An Anthology of Disabled Writers (2026) and Admissions: Voices within Mental Health (2022).

Jenny is developing Writing with Machines curriculum and researching for an Education Innovation grant-funded project at RMIT University, where she also takes part in the Gutter Stars comics group and the non/fictionLab. She has taught Digital Writing at RMIT, Life Writing at the University of Melbourne and was an Associate Teaching Fellow at Deakin throughout 2026. She led multiple Writers Victoria sessions for neurodivergent writers in 2025 and mentored the Writeability Goes Local Port Phillip writers in 2024 and the Writeability Goes Local Whitehorse Manningham writers in 2023.

Jenny lives on unceded Boon Wurrung land with her son. She acknowledges the traditional owners of this land, the Yalukit Willam people, and pays her respect to their ancestors past and present. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.