Sarah Jackson is Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University and Programme Leader MA in CreativeWriting at Nottingham Trent University. She is the editor of Oxford Literary Review, 33.2 (2011), a special issue on deconstructionand poetry, and the author of two books of poetry, Pelt (Newcastle: Bloodaxe, 2012, longlisted for the Guardian First BookAward) and Milk (Brighton: Pighog Press, 2008, shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award).