Jaye is the recipient of an Emerging Writers Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts (now Creative Australia), and the Queen’s Trust Fund (for Writing). She has published a novella with Random House (in the company of three other novellas), published in short story collections (Picador, Vintage, and Angus & Robertson), and the Australian Book Review. She writes occasional nonfiction for The Monthly; has ruminated on questions for The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing & Ideas, and was a screenwriter for LA-based film company Plan B Entertainment. She has appeared at the Melbourne Writers Festival, the Emerging Writers Festival, and the Next Wave Festival, among others.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Tom Colins Poetry Prize, Jaye has poems published or forthcoming in West Branch, The Florida Review, The Cincinnati Rview, Best of Australian Poems 2024, Verse Daily, Foglifter, The Marrow International Poetry Journal , Frozen Sea and Cordite Poetry Review, Her poem ‘Loneliness' Was Part Of It’ was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Jaye has commissioned, edited and produced original writing for podcast, broadcast, and live literary events by Australian and overseas writers, including Pico Iyer, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chloe Hooper, Marina Benjamen and John Safran.

POETRY

West Branch Magazine — “Withness” (Fall print issue No. 106, September 2024)

West Branch Magazine — “The Least Light” (Fall print issue No.106, September 2024)

Frozen Sea — “Loneliness Was Part Of It'“ (Issue Six, October 2024. Also featured in Verse Daily)

The Marrow International Poetry Journal — “Portmanteau” (Issue Two, October 2024)

Cordite Poetry Review — ‘Nox’ or to view on mobile here (‘Space’ issue, February 2025)

Best of Australian Poems 2024 — ‘Portmanteau’