Erik Jensen is the founding editor of The Saturday Paper. He previously worked at The Sydney Morning Herald, where he won the Walkley Award for Young Print Journalist of the Year.

His first book, Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen, won the Nib Award for Literature and was shortlisted for the Walkley Book Award and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

His most recent work, Erik Jensen on Kate Jennings, is a part of the Writers on Writing series (by Black Inc, the State Library of Victoria and Melbourne University Press) and is a literary profile of Australian poet and writer Kate Jennings.

He has also written for film, television and the stage.

Related episodes:

• Alice Pung also contributed to the Writers on Writing series with Alice Pung on John Marsden. We have also interviewed John Marsden on The Garret.
• Erik mentions Morry Schwartz, the founder of Schwartz Media (and the company that publishes The Saturday Paper).
• Benjamin Law, Don Watson and George Megalogenis are other journalists published by Schwartz Media.

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The Garret is committed to accessibility and education. The transcript and interactive show notes of Erik’s interview are available at www.thegarretpodcast.com/erik-jensen.