

'Reconceptualising Maternal Work: Dejours, Ruddick and Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin', forthcoming in Women's Studies International Forum, Issue 38C, June/July 2013."Plump Girls Pinched with Butter", Women Love Sex, ed Susan Johnson, Sydney: Random House, 1996."These Withered Hands Doth Us Do Part", Certifiable Truths, ed Jane Messer, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998."Mermaid of Cockatoo", Traveller's Tales: Best Stories Under the Sun 2, eds Michael Wilding and David Myers, Rockhampton: Outback Books, 2005.Pessac: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2008 'In My Bed, after Tracey Emin', poem, in Of Mothers and Death: from Procreation to Creation, eds E.

'Overboard', Wet Ink 24, September 2011.'Eat and Be Eaten', Griffith Review, Issue 42, 2013.Night by Night, Ringwood: McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1994.Bedlam - anthology of sleepless nights, Selected and Edited by Jane Messer, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1996.Certifiable Truths- stories of love and madness, Editor and Contributor Jane Messer, Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1998.Provenance, Vintage/Random House, 2007.She is a former judge of the Australian Vogel Literary Award and former board member of the Australian Society of Authors. Her current scholarly research focuses on work and identity, with a particular interest in maternal care as work. Jane Messer's writing and research is principally in the area of narrative fiction, in the genres of novel, short story, personal essay, and works for radio. Position: Senior Lecturer in Creative WritingīA (Macq) MA (Johns Hopkins) DCA (UTS) Profile
