Background
Jenny Boult was born in Warwickshire, England in 1951, migrating to Western Australia with her family in 1967.
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Jenny was instrumental in setting up the Friendly Street poets in Adelaide at the Box Factory and she lived in McLaren Street for many years before moving to Norwood. In 1994 Jenny moved to Tasmania with her long-time friend and partner, now deceased. She died in 2005 after a long battle with lung cancer.
MML Bliss says she was once told in the post office of a country town in the north-east of Tasmania that she might be Jenny Boult on the mainland, but in Derby, she was Mistress
Smith. Poems, stories and plays by Jenny and MML Bliss have appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies in Australia and overseas. Jenny Boult"s works have been translated into French, Swedish, Norwegian, Urdu, German and Italian.
MML Bliss lived for many years in Launceston, Tasmania and was President of the Tasmanian Poetry Festival. She was a book reviewer for Thylazine and Sidewalk magazines and awarded a Hydro Tasmania Fellowship for 2003.
In 2002 was awarded a Booranga Writers Fellowship at Wagga Wagga in NSW.
