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Jaye Kranz is a poet, writer and documentary audio maker living on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung people in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia.

She is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: The Cincinnati Review, West Branch, Best of Australian Poems 2024, The Florida Review, Foglifter, The Marrow International Poetry Journal, Frozen Sea and Cordite Poetry Review.

Other writing has been published in The Monthly, Australian Book Review, short story collections and a compendium of four novellas (Picador, Vintage). Jaye was shortlisted for the 2024 Tom Collins Poetry Prize. Her award-winning sound-rich audio features have been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, ABC RN, Arts Centre Melbourne, and the State Library of Victoria. She is writing her first collection of poems.

Find her at www.jayekranz.com

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