Jess Murrain (she/they) is a queer, interdisciplinary creative of British-Caribbean heritage working across live art, performance, film, and poetry. This year, she’s resident poet and writer in residence at Bethlem Gallery in association with Creative Future. Jess is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of Art Wife, an experimental live art company whose most recent project, NEUROQUEER, was commissioned by Bradford 2025 City of Culture and came to fruition as an experiemtal sound work and self-published zine in collaboration with Loose Associations Mixed Media Collective. Work has been recognised through several awards, including the Ledbury Poetry Prize (2021) and the Out-Spoken Prize in Poetry and Poetry-Film (2023), with poetry/essays appearing in Callaloo, The Poetry Review, bath magg and Magma. She’s an alumnus of Southbank New Poets Collective, and her poetry pamphlet ‘One Woman-Horse Show’ is published by Bad Betty Press. Jess is currently working on her full length poetry collection.