Aotearoa research trip, 2024

My name is Mia-Francesca Jones, and I am a writer, researcher and producer with experience working across a number of prominent arts organisations. I am currently undertaking a PhD in practice-led research in creative writing and ecocriticism. My work explores homesickness, climate change, motherhood and meteorology. You can read my full bio here.

What I’ve been up to recently:

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

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

Awarded a 2024 Ian Potter Emerging Artist Grant

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

Undertaking a creative arts residency at Malakta Arts Factory, Finland

Collaborating with the Antarctic Research Centre, Wellington

Working on this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, ‘Lives, Selves, Media and #MeToo: Anticipating Futures, Tracing Histories and Articulating the Present’

Shortlisted for 2023 The Desperate Literature Prize, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh, Tiffany Tsao and Mariana Enriquez

Producing a nature writing workshop and audio walk, for ACMI’s Emporium Creative Hub