The Mad Angel – by Jennifer Code
 

 

Australian-born Jennifer Code is a linguist, researcher, and writer who grew up in Oxford, Massachusetts. The daughter of an Australian war-bride and a U.S. Marine, Jennifer’s life and career have spanned two continents.

Jennifer holds both a Diploma in Arts and Design from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Melbourne, where she studied English and Scandinavian Literature and Languages. During her graduate studies she was the first woman and the first Australian to receive The Strindberg Scholarship and was invited to live and study at the Strindberg Museum in Stockholm. In 1993, she was awarded a PhD from the University of Melbourne for her dissertation on the post-inferno dramas of the Swedish writer, August Strindberg. Her translations and interpretations of Strindberg’s work were highly recognized internationally.

In the 1990s, Jennifer returned to the United States where she worked as Manager of Acquisitions at the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts. During this period, she began writing short prose pieces and longer fiction works. Jennifer was a member of the Worcester County Poetry Association and contributed to publications and programming including a collaboration with the Worcester Arts Museum on their Hudson River paintings.

After more than a decade spent in the United States, she returned to Australia in 2004 where she served as co-chair of the Deakin Literary Society of Melbourne. Jennifer wrote and shared ‘The Lily stories’ with this group; many of these stories are found in the chapters of her book, The Mad Angel.