Jenny Clay works in a library and retreats to write in the Waitakere bush. Her poems have been published in Takahe, New Zealand Poetry Sociaty anthologies, LiveLines, Poetry New Zealand 47, in a book of poetry for shildren, Poetry Pudding, and on the ezines Blackmail press, Fib Review, Southern Ocean Review, and Shot Glass Press.
In 2012 she was runner up in the IWW Kathleen Ireland Poetry Competition. She has been involved in peace organisations, and the environment is one of the concerns within her works
