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.

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.