Editorial Design / Illustration / Reviews / Writing
Jenny is a writer, editor, graphic designer and illustrator who reviews books for the New Zealand Listener and has written regular opinion columns for Stuff and North & South magazine. In 2018 she was one of three finalists for the MPA award for Best Columnist/Blogger. In 2021 she designed and edited a North & South 148-page travel special issue, and in 2022 edited two more special themed issues for the magazine. Before training in graphic design, Jenny graduated from Wellington Polytechnic School of Journalism.
During her years as art director of North & South, she won 10 industry awards for graphic design. She has won the Magazine Publishers Association Awards Designer of the Year award (Current Affairs) twice, and also the MPA Supreme Designer of the Year. Jenny’s magazine covers can be found on the international cover design website Coverjunkie.
Jenny is an experienced commissioning photographic art director and stylist. She was art director of the Auckland urban magazine Metro from 2002 to 2008, and art director of North & South until 2020.
