Mary-Jane is passionate about writing, teaching and editing creative writing.

A forward prize nominee and Hawthornden fellow Her collection of poetry Heliotrope with Matches and Magnifying Glass is published by Pindrop Press and her collection of Flash Fiction Set a Crow to Catch a Crow is published by V. Press. She has won the Live Canon Poetry Pamphlet Prize with her pamphlet Dihedral, the Bath Novella-in-Flash Prize (Don’t Tell the Bees, published by Ad Hoc Fiction), the Bridport Poetry prize, Dromineer Flash Fiction Prize, the Mslexia Flash prize and the Writer's Digest Poetry Prize among others. She has been shortlisted for the Beverley International Prize for Literature and longlisted for the UK National Poetry Prize twice. She was included in the BIFFY 50 2019/2020, showcasing the best British and Irish Flash Fiction and was a UK National Poetry Archive showcased poet during lockdown. Her work appears in a variety of publications including Magma, Modern Poetry in Translation, Mslexia, The Lonely Crowd, Prole The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Tishman Review, Barren, Spelk, Cabinet of Heed, Firewords, Flashback Fiction, Fictive Dream, and in anthologies including Best Small Fictions 2014/16/18/20 and Best Microfictions 2020.

She has an MA (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Kellogg College, Oxford and has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council studentship to complete a practice-led PhD in poetry and translation at Newcastle University. UK.

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