PALEWELL PRESS

Sarah Jackson is a poet and researcher who brings together creative and critical practice to explore questions of social and environmental justice.

Alongside a number of academic books and articles, Sarah’s publications include Milk (Pighog 2009; shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award); Pelt (Bloodaxe 2012; awarded the Seamus Heaney Prize); ‘Echolocation’ (shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Award, 2017); In Transit: Poems of Travel (Emma Press, 2018; co-edited with Tim Youngs); and Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves Press, 2024, co-edited with Daniel Cordle). A BBC New Generation Thinker, she is currently a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at Northumbria University.

In 2023-2024 Sarah designed and led the Voice Notes project, funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council. Alongside an international sound exhibition produced in collaboration with Hardi Kurda and refugees living in the UK and in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the project led to a volume entitled Hold to Record: Voice Notes from Refugees, co-edited with Olja Mladjenović and published by Palewell Press in 2025.