Sarah Jackson is a poet, curator and critic who works at the intersections of writing, art and technology in order to address questions of social and environmental justice. Bringing together creative and critical practice, her current work focuses on ecopoetics, displacement and ways of listening. An award-winning poet, BBC New Generation Thinker, NTU VC Outstanding Researcher, AHRC Leadership Fellow and founding director of Critical Poetics (2015 - 2024), Sarah is currently Vice Chancellor’s Fellow in Creative and Cultural Industries at Northumbria.  

Sarah’s publications include Pelt (Bloodaxe 2012; awarded the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry 2013); Tactile Poetics: Touch and Contemporary Writing (Edinburgh University Press, 2015); Unidentifiable Literary Objects, a special issue of parallax (2019), co-edited with Camilla Bostock; Literature and the Telephone: Conversations on Poetics, Politics and Place (Bloomsbury, 2023); and Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age (Five Leaves, 2024), co-edited with Daniel Cordle. In 2021, her film Calling Across Borders, co-created with a group of young refugees, was shortlisted for the Best Research Film in the Research in Film Awards; her interactive sound installation Voice Notes has been exhibited in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Nottingham, London and Ghent. 

Sarah welcomes proposals from prospective doctoral candidates interested in working in poetry, poetics, art writing, sound studies and the environmental humanities.