Author/Editor: Sandy Jeffs
Biography
Sandy Jeffs was born in Ballarat and has a BA from La Trobe University. She has lived with schizophrenia and all its moods for 40 years. She is a community educator who speaks to schools, universities and community groups about what it’s like to live with a mental illness. She has been published widely and is a prize-winning poet whose writing has been concerned with madness, domestic violence and the humorous antics of women who play midweek ladies’ tennis.
Sandy is the author of the bestselling Poems from the Madhouse (1993; reprinted 2000, 2001), Loose Kangaroos (co-author, 1998), Blood Relations (2000), Confessions of a Midweek Lady: Tall Tennis Tales (2001), and The Wings of Angels: A memoir of madness (2004).
She is the author of a memoir, Flying with Paper Wings: Reflections on Living With Madness (2009) which won the SANE Book of the Year Award.
Her latest collections of poetry are The Mad Poet's Tea Party (2015) and Chiarascuro (2015).
Sandy lives with her friends and animals on the outskirts of Melbourne.
2018
Sandy Jeffs is one of 10 women featured in the Her Place Women’s Museum Australia exhibition, which launches at Ballarat’s Eureka Centre on 14 November. Read more about Sandy and her poetry here.
Events
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01 Jan 2015 Book Launch at Christmas Hills 
Tuesday June 11, 6.30 for 7pm
Christmas Hills Mechanics Insitutute Hall
787 Ridge Rd
Christmas Hills
RSVP June 4
20 minutes from Eltham
Melway ref 265 H12
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News
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03 Aug 2010 Sandy Jeffs Shortlisted for Age Book of the Year
Sandy Jeffs has been shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award (non-fiction) for her autobiography, Flying with Paper Wings: Refle... more |
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12 Jul 2010 Media: Sandy Jeffs on The Conversation Hour
Listen in to ABC Melbourne or ABC local radio on Wednesday 14 July, 11am for Sandy Jeffs on the Conversation Hour. Or catch the podcast... more |
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15 Dec 2009 A brave and beautiful book
Sandy Jeffs' memoir, Flying With Paper Wings: Reflections on Living With Madness got a great wrap in The Age a couple of weekends back.... more |
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09 Oct 2009 Fifth annual World Matters forums, Eltham, Victoria
If the world matters to you, check out the fifth annual World Matters forums on October 17, 18, 19 and November 19 at Edendale Community... more |
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07 Oct 2009 Upcoming poetry events
Pages to Poetry: Sandy Jeffs at Readings
Come hear prize-winning poet Sandy Jeffs read from her latest work at the Readings event Pages... more |
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27 Apr 2009 Sandy Jeffs on Radio National
Listen to Sandy Jeffs on First Person, RN The Book Show: www.abc.net.au/rn/firstperson/stories/2009/2544520.htm |
Awards
Nomination, 2010 Human Rights Award
1994 Commended, Human Rights Award Victorian Women's Role of Honour
1994 FAW Anne Elder Award
Book Awards
Poems from the Madhouse: 1994 FAW Anne Elder Award
Poems from the Madhouse: 1994 Commended, Human Rights Award
Poems from the Madhouse: Victorian Women's Role of Honour
Poems from the Madhouse / Now Millennium: 1994 Commended, Human Rights Award
Poems from the Madhouse / Now Millennium: 1993 FAW Anne Elder Award
