Nine Arches Press

Jane Burn is a poet and illustrator based in the North East of England. She has won the Sliver Wyvern at the Poetry on the Lake Festival and first places in the Wirral, PENfro, Bailieborough and Wolverhampton Literary Festival Poetry Competitions. She is a working class bisexual with a late diagnosis of Autism. Her poems have appearted in The Rialto, Under The Radar, Iota, Butcher's Dog and Oxford English Journal and in anthologies including Writing Motherhood, #MeToo, Planet in Peril, Humanagerie, The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry, and the Anthology of Illness. Her work has been nominated for the Forward and Pushcart Prize. In 2019, she co-edited Witches, Warriors, Workers, a volume of contemporary women's poetry and essays with Fran Lock for Culture Matters Press. Her illustrations have been used as covers for many books.