Jones was raised in Concord, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney.
Her father is Australian; her British mother had emigrated to Australia.
[1] She studied at MLC School (in Burwood, Sydney), then worked and travelled abroad, returning to Australia to study English at the University of Sydney, where she graduated with the University Medal in 2001.
[3] Jones was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere, Cumbria from 2009 - 2010.
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