My name is Dr. Mia-Francesca Jones, and I am a writer, researcher and producer with a PhD in creative environmental communication. My work explores homesickness, climate change, motherhood and meteorology. I have extensive experience working with and for arts and not-for-profit organisations, including The Wheeler Centre for Books Writing and Ideas, the Emerging Writers’ Festival, Castlemaine Art Museum and the Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing. I currently live in Naarm/Melbourne with my two daughters. You can read my full bio here.

What I’ve been up to recently:

Announced as a 2025 Sydney Powerhouse Museum Research Scholar

Awarded a Creative Australia grant to write a new narrative non-fiction book, “Objects of Light”

Awarded an inaugural 2025 Abbotsford Convent Writers Residency

Awarded the 2025 Mick Dark Flagship Fellowship for Outstanding Environmental Writing by Varuna National Writer’s House

Highly commended for the 2025 Peter Blazey Fellowship by the University of Melbourne

Awarded the 2024 Jennifer Strauss Fellowship for Humanities by Australian Graduate Women National Awards

Awarded a 2024 Ian Potter Emerging Artist Grant

Awarded the 2024 Joyce Iggulden Memorial Prize for Excellence in Creative Arts by James Cook University

Presenting at the 2024 IABA World Conference at the University of Iceland

Collaborating with the Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington