In 2015, Jena Woodhouse was awarded Creative Residencies at Camac Centre d’Art, Marnay-sur-Seine, France, and at the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens, Greece. In May 2016, she was writer-in-residence at Booranga Writers’ Centre, Wagga Wagga NSW. In September 2017 she will be one of the resident writers at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Ireland. Her poems were twice shortlisted for the Montreal International Poetry Prize (2013, 2015).  She is the author/ compiler/ translator of seven published books in various genres, the most recent being a short-story collection, Dreams of Flight (Ginninderra 2014).