Born: Established: 1987 ;
Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2020 shortlisted The Horne Prize for 'Water, Everywhere'.
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2018
recipient
The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund
for a research trip to Prince Edward Island and Ontario, Canada, to develop her manuscript ‘Priest Pond’, which acts as a parallel text to L M Montgomery’s ‘Emily of New Moon’ series
Awards for Works
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y
Things That Helped : Essays
Brunswick
:
Scribe
,
2017
10984335
2017
selected work
essay
'Through the tide of hormones ebbing and flowing my body, and the little runnels of blood and the sour tang of my breasts, I lay awake, listening, and thinking of breath and of water. I had broken my relationship with sleep.
'In this stunning collection, Jessica Friedmann navigates her journey through postpartum depression after the birth of her son, Owen. Drawing on critical theory, popular culture, and personal experience, her wide-ranging essays touch on class, race, gender, and sexuality, as well as motherhood, creativity, and mental illness.
'Occasionally confronting, but always powerfully moving and beautifully observed, Things That Helped charts Jessica’s return into the world: a slow and complex process of reassembling what depression fractured and sometimes broke.' (Publication Summary)
- 2017 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Literature
- 2018 longlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
- 2018 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Autobiography / Biography / Memoir
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