Jessica Murrain

Jess Murrain is a queer poet of British-Caribbean dual heritage working mainly in live performance and theatre. Her wider practice explores film-poetry and she’s also co-founder of Theatre with Legs, an experimental theatre company. 

Murrain won Silver in the Creative Future Writers’ Award and won first prize in the Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition. Her poetry has appeared in bath magg, Magma, Perverse, Powders Press, Queerlings, Tentacular, Under the Radar and Field Notes on Survival: A Bad Betty Anthology. Her debut pamphlet was produced by Bad Betty Press in 2022.