Rosie Jackson
BA Hons Class 1 ENglish and Comp Lit DPhil York
About Rosie
ROSIE JACKSON lives in Devon, where she teaches creative writing workshops and works in arts and
health. She has a first-class degree from the University of Warwick, a D. Phil.
from York, and has taught in many universities and educational settings,
including the University of East Anglia, Nottingham Trent, Bristol UWE,
Bethesda Writers' Centre Washington DC, Skyros Writers' Lab, Cortijo Romero,
and the Open College of the Arts. Her poetry pamphlet What the Ground Holds (Poetry Salzburg, 2014) was followed by her first collection The Light Box (Cultured Llama, 2016). Her poetry has been published in Acumen, Ambit,
Domestic Cherry, Frogmore Papers, High Window, Poetry Ireland Reiew, Poetry Salzburg
Review, Scintilla, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter's House, other journals
and anthologies; set for GCSE; used for a sculpture by Andrew Whittle in the
grounds of a Dorchester hospital; and she has collaborated with the Orchestra
of the Age of Enlightenment. With Dawn Gorman she won the Hedgehog Pamphlet
competition 2019; won 1st prize in the Poetry Space competition 2019,
1st prize and the Hilly Cansdale award at Wells 2018, 2nd prize at Torbay 2018, 1st prize in the Stanley Spencer Poetry Competition
2017, 3rd prize Hippocrates Open 2017, Hilly Cansdale Award Wells
2015, 1st prize Bath 2015, 2nd prize Battered Moons 2015,
1st and 2nd prizes Berkshire Festival, 2016 and 2017, 2nd prize Havant Literary Festival, and has been widely commended at Bridport and
elsewhere. She was a Hawthornden fellow 2017. Her books of prose include Fantasy:
The Literature of Subversion; Frieda Lawrence; The Eye of the Buddha (fiction);Mothers Who Leave and she has won awards for her short stories. The
Glass Mother: A Memoir was published by Unthank Books in 2016.
http://www.rosiejackson.org.uk/