Ella Jeffery is an Australian poet. She is the author of the poetry collection Dead Bolt (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020), which won the Anne Elder Award, the Puncher & Wattmann Prize for a First Book of Poetry, and was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award. Her poetry has appeared widely in journals and anthologies including The Best Australian Poems, Ambit, HEAT, Australian Book Review, and Island. She lives in Brisbane and teaches creative writing at Griffith University.
