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Eugenia Jenny Williams was born in Kosice, then in Hungary later in Czechoslovakia, now in the Slovak Republic. In 1968 when the Russians invaded Czechoslovakia Jenny's family escaped, arriving in Tasmania in 1969. Jenny has worked in a variety of jobs and began writing in her retirement.