Born Jennifer May Spurway, in Rockhampton in 1949, Woodhouse is a graduate of the University of Queensland obtaining a B.A.Hons in Russian language and literature.
AustLit lists 562 published works by Woodhouse[1] that include the domestic fiction ‘Farming Ghosts’ (2009),[2] and the short story collection ‘Dreams of Flight’ (2014).
[3] Woodhouse's published poetry collections include 'Eros in Landscape' (1989),[4] 'Passenger on a Ferry' (1994)[5] and 'Green Dance: Tamborine Mountain Poems' (2018).
Amongst Woodhouse's awards is a High Commendation for ‘The Termitary’ in the 2007 Fellowship of Australian Writers Tom Collins Poetry Prize (Western Australia)[7] and second place for ‘Galahs near Booranga’ in the 2017 Henry Kendall Poetry Award (Victoria).
[8] Woodhouse has been short-listed three times for the Montreal International Poetry Prize for ‘A Bird and the River ‘ (2013),[9] ‘Evening Stroll by the Canal’ (2015),[10] and more recently for ‘Lament for a Daughter’ (2020).