Murray Jennings has worked at a range of jobs including storeman, postman, clerk, salesman and editor's assistant. He has also been involved in radio broadcasting for many years. He worked as an ABC announcer in Perth and the Kimberleys and later became the Head of the Broadcasting Department of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.
Jennings' poems and short stories have been published in a number of journals and anthologies around Australia and his radio plays have been broadcast on ABC Radio.