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J. S. Harry has published five volumes of poetry. Her first book, The Deer Under the Skin (1971), was awarded the Harri Jones Memorial Prize and chosen as the Poetry Society's Book of the Year. A Dandelion for Van Gogh was shortlisted for the National Book Council Awards in 1985 and the Adeliaide Festival Poetyr Awards in 1986. The title poem of her fourth book, The Life on the Water and the Life Beneath (1995) won the PEN Internatinal Lyne Phillips Poetry Prize.

Born in South Australia and now living in Sydney she has had a variety of jobs including editing the ABC Radio National poetry program, 'A First Hearing', and has been a writer-in-residence at Australian National University. She has been a poetry editor for the Ulitara literary journal for the last few years.

A selection of her poetry has been translated and then anthologised in Italian. Her work has been included in anthologies for primary and secondary students, in an environmental studies kit and in other secondary education material. Her most recent body of work, Selected Poems (1995) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's 1996 Literary Award for Poetry, and was a co-winner of the New South Wales Premier's 1996 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize.