Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator. She was founding editor of independent publishing house Offord Road Books, and has worked as an editor for Faber & Faber, Poetry London, Unbound and CHEERIO Publishing. Martha’s translations from Spanish include poems by Ana Gorría (Ciclo, Debacle Ediciones, 2020), Gladys Mendía (PTC/Ledbury, 2020), Verónica Viola Fisher (Arc/Edge Hill, 2021) and St John of the Cross (forthcoming, Penguin Classics). In 2021 she was shortlisted for the Peirene–Stevns Translation Prize for fiction. Following two pamphlets, Glass As Broken Glass (Rack, 2017, shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award) and Milk Tooth (Rough Trade Books, 2018), Martha’s debut collection, Citadel (LUP, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Costa Poetry Award and the John Pollard International Poetry Prize. She has taught for Arvon and the Poetry School, is a trustee for the Rebecca Swift Foundation and a mentor for the Women Poets’ Prize.
Chapter and Verse PREMIUM poetry mentor (in person London)
