Jean Sprackland’s first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers’ Day (Spike) was shortlisted for the Forward First Book Award and her second, Hard Water (Cape) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was shortlisted for the 2003 T.S. Eliot Award. She lives in Southport.

Jean's story 'My Career in Goodness' appears in Elsewhere.
A sequence of his prose fiction appears in Ellipsis 1.
Jean's story 'Rollercoaster Cowboy' appears in Manchester Stories 5.