Jodie grew up in Wynyard and Rocky Cape on Tasmania's northwest coast. Jodie holds a BA in Chinese Mandarin (UNE), a Graduate Diploma in Australian Folklife Studies (Curtin) and a Diploma of Family History (UTAS). Her poetry has been published in the Koori Mail, Yellow Moon, Famous Reporter, Modern Haiku, Femku Mag, Eucalypt Tanka Journal, Stylus Poetry Journal, Positive Words Magazine, paper wasp, Eureka Street, FreeXpression, Haiku Dreaming, Blue Giraffe, Simply Haiku and in various other publications and online journals.