Jamie Grant

James Beresford Grant (born 1949, Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian journalist, reviewer and poet. He attended Geelong Grammar School, and subsequently La Trobe University, where he studied English. After graduating he worked briefly in advertising as a copywriter, before becoming a sales representative for the academic publisher Cambridge University Press. Grant moved to Sydney in 1984, where he worked as a bookseller and later as a freelance journalist and reviewer. He is married to a literary agent, Margaret Connolly.