Jen Bowden

Jen is a writer, editor, journalist and event moderator from Northern England now living in Brisbane. She worked in publishing and journalism for over a decade, and has been published in the Guardian, Scotland on Sunday and Westerly among others. She now teaches at Curtin University where she’s also doing her PhD in Creative Writing, researching publishing biases and the use of northern working-class dialect in contemporary UK fiction. Jen is the host of the Reader & Writers Podcast.