Jennifer Mackenzie

Jennifer Mackenzie is a poet who has a longstanding engagement with writing from and about the Asian region. Her most recent book, The Wallace Line: A Poem, is the third volume, following Borobudur and Navigable Ink, in a series focused on Indonesia. She has appeared at a number of conferences and festivals across Asia, most recently the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival and the Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters in Trivandrum.

Photo Credit: Ubud Readers & Writers Festival (UWRF)

Works By Jennifer Mackenzie

The Father, Rage, and Fire
The Dog Meows, The Cat Barks is Eka Kurniawan’s fifth novel and his fourth one to be published in English translation. Jennifer Mackenzie considers the confessional and psychoanalytic elements of the work, and its place in the author’s oeuvre.
26 Oct. 2026
‘The Conundrum of the Instant’: on John Mateer
John Mateer, over a long career, has been a poet of distance and locale, working with a continental sense of poetics, traversing land and sea in an inquiry into the nature of an historically-framed instant.
10 Mar. 2019
Serendipity and Strategy: The Face of The Buddha
1 Mar. 2017