Kai Jensen lives, works and writes on Yuin Country, at Wallaga Lake on the New South Wales Far South Coast. Kai was born in Philadelphia, USA in 1959; he lived from the age of five in Aotearoa/New Zealand, then moved to Australia in 2004, and is now an Australian citizen. Kai’s poetry-writing was interrupted by his career as a university manager, but since moving to Wallaga Lake in 2017 he has resumed writing poetry and sending it out for publication, while continuing to work as a consultant to universities and a specialist editor.

Kai’s poems have appeared in Australia, in 34 to 37 Degrees South, The Age, fourW, Cordite, Overland, the South Coast Writer’s Centre’s annual anthologies, Southerly and Westerly; in Aotearoa/New Zealand, in JAAM,