For most of her life Jenny Pollak has been a full-time artist, focusing her arts practice in photography, sculpture and video installation, a time which also included five years as a musician playing flute and congas with various African and Latin American bands around Sydney, NSW, and on a short tour in Latin America. In 2012 she began a dedicated poetry practice and has since been published in various journals, including Meanjin, Cordite, the Australian Poetry Journal, and the Stilts journal, as well as in various anthologies, including Australian Award-Winning Writing 2017. She is currently working on her first two collections of poetry.