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.

In 2025, I was awarded the Mick Dark Flagship Fellow for Outstanding Environmental Writing by Varuna National Writers’ House. An extract of my work-in-progress was commended for the Peter Blazey Fellowship by the University of Melbourne. The judges notes were that the work:

“…thoughtfully winds ecological impacts of light pollution with an autobiographical narrative of loss. ‘How do we find the light in grief? How do we find the light on a dying planet?’ An incisive exploration of contemporary crises … promises to be a powerful and necessary contribution to Australian non-fiction.”

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 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