Jess Murrain (she/they) is a queer, interdisciplinary creative of British-Caribbean heritage, working in live art, theatre, film and poetry. She is also the co-founder/Artistic Director of Art Wife, an experimental live art company, whose latest project, NEUROQUEER, was commissioned by Bradford 2025 City of Culture. She is the winner of the Ledbury Poetry Prize, Out-Spoken Prize in Poetry and Film, and a Creative Future Writers’ Award. Her poetry and essays have appeared in bath magg, Callaloo, Magma and The Poetry Review. She is an alumnus of Southbank New Poets Collective, and her poetry pamphlet One Woman-Horse Show is published with Bad Betty Press.