Biography
Jazz Money is a poet and artist of Wiradjuri and Irish heritage who lives on sovereign Gadigal land in Sydney, Australia. With an arts practice centred in poetics, Money’s works encompass visual art, film, performance, audio and print. Her first poetry collection, “how to make a basket,” won the 2020 David Unaipon Award from the State Library of Queensland, among many honours. “A luminous and beautifully sculpted, seamless collection of poems that reflects on place and passion,” wrote the judges, calling the book part of a “growing canon of work by contemporary Indigenous women poets,” one that offers “a new, fresh perspective on remembering and forgetting.” Money’s exploration of what it is to live in a contemporary colonial state both protests settler violence and celebrates Blak and queer love. She incorporates Wiradjuri as well as English into her poems. Money’s second collection of poetry, and a debut children’s picture book, are forthcoming.