Jennings, Kate

Kate Jennings is a poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. Both her novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were New York Times notable books of the year. She has won the ALS gold medal, the Christina Stead prize for fiction and the Adelaide Festival's fiction prize. In the 1990s, she worked as a speechwriter on Wall Street. Stanley and Sophie, a memoir of life in New York City, where she has lived for the past three decades, was published in 2008.