About the host

Grace Jennings-Edquist an award-winning editor, journalist and author. Based in Naarm (Melbourne), Grace has more than a decade of experience working across the US, UK, Europe and Asia.

With lived experience of chronic illness and invisible disability, Grace is passionate about shining a spotlight on inequities in healthcare, as well as medical misogyny.

Grace’s journalism has been published by organisations including the ABC, The Guardian, Crikey, New Statesman, The Australian, News.com.au, The Age and Ms. Magazine. She has worked as a reporter at ABC Everyday, senior editor at Mamamia, commissioning editor at 360info, and reporter at the Financial Times group in New York.

Grace is also the author of nonfiction book The Yes Woman (Affirm Press 2021), a work of narrative journalism focused on women’s mental health.

She was a 2024 Quills Award finalist (disability reporting category) for a suite of her work on barriers to healthcare for women with invisible illness. She also won second prize in The Writers’ Prize 2024 by Future Leaders; was a 2022 Our Watch Walkleys fellow (administered by the Walkleys Foundation for Excellence in Journalism); and won a 2018 Michael Gordon Social Justice Fellowship by the Melbourne Press Club.

A selection of Grace’s work can be found here.